Talk:Key:company
Only in combination with office=company???
Hopefully not!
We have tags for almost anything... spreaded to many different keys... E.g.
- shop=supermarket
- amenity=school
- leisure=horse_riding
- man_made=wastewater_plant
- office=insurance
- craft=plumber
- utility=gas
But how to map a company?
man_made=works is dedicated only for production. It's a tag from the very early days of OSM and not well considerd.
Companies that do not match to anything we have yet:
- logistics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistics
- trading/wholesale trading:
- industrial service:
- computing centre:
- refuse collection/garbage collection:
- recycling:
- municipal sevice/municipal unitlity company
- containter port: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_port
I think this key suggest itself to use it for non specific companies. And I can't see a link to office=company.
--EinKonstanzer (talk) 19:13, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- According to taginfo, this key is almost always used with office=company - https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/company#combinations - and as you mentioned, there are many other, more specific tags for specific kinds of businesses and offices. This tag is used for offices, rather than industrial sites, distribution centers, etc.. --Jeisenbe (talk) 05:23, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
- See Talk:Tag:office=company#Let's encourage mappers to use a more specific tag (was: deprecation) ---- Kovposch (talk) 06:49, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Basic stub page with minimal but important content
It is OK to consolidate description in one place on page Tag:office=company instead of having all duplicate information. But there are some needs and functions which depend on the existence of a key page with a minimal but basic content in terms of the KeyDescription box, in my assessment. Those are e.g. automatic categorization, linking of the corresponding data item (important for maintenance), or the fetching mechanism of taginfo (which is crucial for taginfo and taglist). – My current edit of the key page represents such a basic page. I hope my explanations are understandable and the basic key page appropriate. --Chris2map (talk) 19:25, 19 September 2024 (UTC)