Categories for office tags

[plepe]

Until yesterday OpenStreetBrowser completely ignored the "office" key. Now I created an "Offices" category (under "Services"), but I'm not sure about it's usefulness. It would be great to get some input from the community on this.

Many of the tags should actually be included in other categories and I'm not sure what to do with the rest. Maybe you (or others) have some thoughts on this?

Of course we can include the tags in the others and have an additional "office" category anyway.

This are the top 60 values (according to https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/office#values) of the 'office' key:

value	suiting category
government	Services -> Public
company	?
yes	?
estate_agent	?
insurance	? maybe Services -> Financial
lawyer	?
educational_institution	Services -> Education
administrative	Services -> Public
telecommunication	Services -> Communication
ngo	New category "Organisations"
association	New category "Organisations"
it	Services -> Telecommunication ?
accountant	Services -> Financial
employment_agency	?
research	Services -> Education
religion	Culture and Religion -> Religion
architect	?
financial	Services -> Financial
newspaper	Services -> Communication ?
physician	Services -> Health
therapist	Services -> Health
travel_agent	Services -> Tourism
political_party	New category "Organisations"
advertising_agency	?
tax_advisor	Services -> Financial
notary	?
energy_supplier	? maybe Infrastructure -> Energy -> Offices
foundation	New category "Organisations"
logistics	?
water_utility	?
coworking	?
forestry
parish	Culture and Religion -> Religion
consulting
medical	Services -> Health
charity	New category "Organisations"
construction_company	Infrastructure -> Construction Sites ???
guide	Services -> Tourism
property_management
vacant
tax	Services -> Public and/or Services -> Financial
moving_company	?
quango	New category "Organisations"
camping	Services -> Tourism
publisher	Services -> Communication
engineering
surveyor
university	Services -> Education
cooperative	Services -> Financial (not exactly sure what 'cooperative' means, but most used values have somtehing like "Saving and Credit Cooperative" in their name)
taxi	Transport -> Public Transportation -> Amenities
real_estate
engineer	Infrastructure -> Construction Sites ???
geodesist
transport
podologist	Services -> Health
administration	Services -> Public
union	New category "Organisations"
security
solicitor
property_maintenance

I also have thoughts about "office=yes" - currently it shows "yes" as description for map features of this type. I would like to write "unknown" (resp. its translation) instead. What do you think about that?

[plepe]

So, these are the main questions now:

• Shall there be an 'offices' category, as I created it?

• I will include these offices values in the mentioned categories, but did I do any mistakes in the assignment?

• What with the tags where I don't have a fitting category - shall I create categories for these and if yes, which, and under which parent category ...

[Cybereric]

Hello,

Wow I wont' comment yet all the sixty tags !

I think that first it would be better to begin with the tags from the wiki page >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:office rather than Tag Info.

First we must classify the tags by theme on the model of the "shops" page.
This should be clearer.
And later also improve the wiki by structuring tags thematically like "shops"

How to tidy up?
Perhaps take the example of the category "tourism" divided into different sections
But I think there is also an interest in having a category "office" just as we have for "shops" and "craft".

The problem of the categories is that we do not see what is inside (what elements they contain) we must find explicit names.
As with "Electric power" ;-)

So here is my thematic classification according to the wiki page in English.

At the end you'll find some additional tags. Some are really "new" but I will use them soon.
Some did not exist yet and were really missing I think.

Éric

Do you know this web service ?
It's very useful to translate words and use the right terminology >>> https://iate.europa.eu

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So it's just thematic no category priority.

Finances - Insurances - Taxes

office=financial

office=accountant

office=insurance

office=tax
office=tax_advisor

Law

office=lawyer
office=notary

Social

office=adoption_agency
office=charity

Communication - Media - Audiovisual

office=newspaper
office=telecommunication

office=advertising_agency

Real estate

office=architect
office=estate_agent
office=property_management

Education - Employment

office=educational_institution
office=employment_agency

Services

office=company

office=energy_supplier
office=water_utility

office=travel_agent
office=guide

office=logistics
office=moving_company

office=private_investigator

office=surveyor

office=therapist

Technic - Computing- Sciences

office=engineer
office=it
office=research

Administration - Politics

office=government
office=political_party

Land

office=forestry
office=geodesist

Associations - Foundations

office=association
office=ngo
office=quango
office=foundation

Religion

office=parish
office=religion

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New tags

And a new category (+ new tags) that was missing I think

Business - Management

office=management_consulting
office=investment_advisor
office=financial_advisor
office=credit_broker
office=mortgage_broker

new tags in existing category
"Communication - Media - Audiovisual"

office=public_relations
office=human_resources

office=communication_agency

office=audiovisual_production
office=film_production

new tags in existing category
"Real Estate"

office=real_estate_promoter and synonyms => (office=promoter / office=developer)
office=real_estate_broker

[Cybereric]

I hope this classification will help you to put the elements in the proper category in OpenStreetBrowser.

I hope there is no misunderstanding the above categories are just there to rank the tags. This is not the menu tree of OpenStreetBrowser ;-)

[plepe]

Thanks for your advice, I will come up with something :-)

[plepe]

The newest category update includes some of the suggestions - it's not finished yet, though: https://blog.openstreetbrowser.org/node/63