I have found this business, Clark Pacific Excavating in Nanaimo, BC, Canada, and I have no idea how to tag it. It is a contractor specializing in activities like rock breaking and excavation. Should I just use “office=construction”, or is there a more descriptive tag that I can use?
Doesn’t really seem to be, no.
Handful of uses of excavator sales & rentals, but that doesn’t really help!
In the UK I might refer to something like that as a “groundwork contractor”, but a look through the craft key in OSM not only doesn’t find that, it doesn’t find an obvious alternative. If you’re tagging the office, then office=construction sounds as good as anything. If you’re tagging the yard where they physically operate from, perhaps something else - have a look at the usage of other tags with landuse=industrial and usage of industrial, for example.
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I’ve had to venture a bit into ATYL territory as I work through my QA queues after I made a big addr:country=USA → addr:county=US edit which caught a lot of the meh-quality SEO-focused additions of various businesses.
I agree with @SomeoneElse above: office=construction + craft=<their_specialty> is a good approach. I suggest taking a look through Taginfo for craft=* (linky) and office=* (linky) to see if anyone came up with something already.
craft= is for individual crafting. It’s not suitable for all constructions and contractors.
The term I’m familiar with more is “earthworks” , although there’s none other than 3 craft= used yet. office=construction_company etc needs to be sorted out.
And I have now added the business in question, having selected “office=construction”.
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