specify values for "embassy" tag

[tyrasd]

closes #340

I'm not completely sure with some of the labels I used here.
If someone could perhaps proof-read these would be very much appreciated! 😊 I was especially unsure about the following ones:

• "residence": "Official Residence of an Ambassador" – the wiki describes it as the Official residence of an ambassador or other diplomatic chief of mission.
• "delegation": "Delegation" – AFAICS this one seems to exclusively (?) for the diplomatic missions of the EU (see wikipedia).
• "interests_section": "Interests Section"

[ZeLonewolf]

The labels are fine.

However, the tag embassy=yes is useless cruft that should not get added to the database. It provides no information beyond amenity=embassy. It should be deleted unless the mapper specifies a specific type of embassy.

[tyrasd]

Thanks.

I thought embassy=yes was useful since it explicitly marks a diplomatic "site" as being an actual "regular" embassy (i.e. not of any of the other possible kinds, e.g. branch, mission, delegation, etc.):

osm wiki for embassy=yes:

Bears a sign labeling it as an embassy and is headed by an ambassador.

A simple omission of the embassy tag would leave the actual kind unspecified, wouldn't it?

[ZeLonewolf]

Okay, fair enough. It looks like the original proposal did intentionally make an embassy=yes, which is still weird but that's OSM for you.

[Bibi56]

Okay, fair enough. It looks like the original proposal did intentionally make an embassy=yes, which is still weird but that's OSM for you.

Exactly. embassy=full_range_embassy or whatsoever would have made more sense. It's the residence (or not!) and the chancery and the consular services (or not!).

• Residence included: Embassy of Cameroon

• Residence excluded: French Embassy

• Consular services included: French Embassy

• Consular services excluded: Embassy of India (Chancery)

Tag	Value
diplomatic	embassy
embassy	yes
diplomatic:services:citizen_services	no
diplomatic:services:immigrant_visas	no
diplomatic:services:non-immigrant_visas	no

but Embassy of India - Consular Wing:

Tag	Value
diplomatic	consulate

To make more fun the usage changed over the years:
The former French embassy is now the French ambassador's residence.
The current French embassy was the French General Consulate.
At that time the French chancery was in another place...