On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Alex S. wrote: > Valent Turkovic wrote: > > I like the idea of office=laywer, office=notary > > maybe we need this, no? > > In the USA, Notary is a secondary function/service (most bank branches > here have notaries public on staff, for example). > >
We have here an example of something which has the same name but means quite different things in several different countries. I've just looked up what it means in Australia, because I didn't know, and it is again slightly different from any other country. Instead of making proposals for office=lawyer and office=notary could someone consider starting a whole set to include accountants architects surveyors lawyers engineers insurance agents produce agents publisher real estate agent geologist mortgage broker politician i have made no effort to see if there any existing tags which overlap with those i listed _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk