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How would you tag the offices for this company? I haven't found anything even remotely similar to "testing laboratory" in the wiki. (It needs to be something that can go on a point feature, since they share a building with an insurance agent.) |
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A useful starting point for tagging things like this is to use one of the standard industry classifications, such as SIC or ISIC. This business falls into category 7120 (Technical Testing & Analysis) of the International Standard Industry Classification. There are a number of tags which have been used on a very small scale to tag industry sector, browse through this list on taginfo for ideas. The idea behind such tagging is to avoid having to invent lots of categories for business which are relatively rare, but to use some slightly more general tag. Using a standard classification makes this easier. In the main these have not been used at all extensively because most mappers still have plenty of major things still to map and so rarely worry much about it. In the main such tags will be most useful if people get interested in some analytical problem (e.g., where are the water quality labs around Flint, MI). For now they provide a more formalised way of providing information than the description key. My main data-gathering technique is to point a camera out the side of my car and map whatever it finds, so I tend to come across things that more directed data-gathering won't (such as a Pepsi distribution warehouse, or the aforementioned testing lab). The downside is that I find all sorts of things that nobody's thought about how to tag.
(07 Apr '16, 06:04)
Carnildo
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