Talk:Tag:office=lawyer
Are notaries always the same as "lawyer" in all cases?
An office=notary doesn't seem to be exactly the same as office=lawyer + lawyer=notary in Brazil.
While the notary (the person) needs to have a law degree, a notary's office is more like a notary + register office at the same place.
Also, if I didn't wrongly understand it, won't we exclude civil law notaries if we use office=lawyer + lawyer=notary instead office=notary only?
--naoliv (talk) 11:34, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
- If office=notary is used for a notary public in a common law country and Brazil is a civil law country; therefore lawyer=notary should be used for civil law notaries in Brazil,
notários. - Davileci (talk) 15:31, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
Add legal speciality
A similarity between doctors and lawyers is they have specialties. A lawyer might practice tax law, constitutional law, real estate law, personal injury law, employment law, ... . I would like to see the ability to add legal specialties to a lawyer or law office. Jogger2 (talk) 02:36, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
I noticed the way specialities are tagged according to this wiki article differ from how it is done in the healthcare scheme (where we have healthcare:speciality=*, multiple values separated by ";"). Wouldn't it make sense to set this analog to healthcare and not create a new key for every speciality? This would probably also make tagging / data usage of local variations easier, as the values are not so well established yet. --Highflyer74 (talk) 09:30, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
- This has been discussed before here. healthcare:speciality=* is not the best solution to tag the specialty. See here. Fabi2 (talk) 10:16, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
So far I only see you yourself coming to the conclusion that this is not a good solution. The healthcare:speciality=* (note the "i") scheme is not a single value scheme, but meant to be used with multiple values if applicable. Data users have no issues to extract what's in between the ";". I would suggest to take this to either the tagging ML or, a bit more fancy, the forum at https://community.openstreetmap.org/. --Highflyer74 (talk) 10:34, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
- I got rid of the part about the namespaces because they are essentially unused and the lawyer tag is perfectly fine for tagging the specialty anyway. There's zero point in duplicating it with a more convoluted and obtuse tagging scheme that no one is going to use. --Adamant1 (talk) 08:47, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
- Using lawyer=* mixes the type of the lawyer with its specialities, there is no good possibility to specify both things, so someone can easily search or filter for one of these if needed. So this makes things even worse as the namespaces used before.
- Fabi2 (talk) 17:10, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
- What's the difference between the "type" of lawyer and specialty? Like there's currently "lawyer=immigration" and "lawyer:speciality:immigration." So is immigration a specialty or a type of lawyer? And how would the average person go about determining or deciding which one it is? --Adamant1 (talk) 12:07, 13 November 2022 (UTC)