I believe I found a Missing Tag While Using JOSM: Tag:office=forestry

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Hi everyone. I’m relatively new to mapping and I am using JOSM fyi.

I am located in the USA and was trying to add a State Forest Service building today when I believe I noticed a missing tag. The tag in question is Tag:office=forestry. As you can see the tag is on the wiki and doesn’t appear to be antiquated as other tags sometimes are. When I try and add this tag in JOSM it is not present so I opted to use Tag:office=government with Tag:government=forestry since it’s a State office and that seems to be the next best option.

I’m bringing this to the attention of the Developers of OSM and/or JOSM so this potential issue can be fixed. Otherwise, if I am doing something wrong I would appreciate help!

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Tag:government=forestry

I have to add the link to that tag here as I’m a new user and limited to two links. This tag has no information to help me figure out my problem.

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You don’t have to use the available presets, so you can just type in the tag box office=forestry.

Although JOSM has an extensive set of presets, the scope of OSM is very broad and not every use-case will be covered by presets. If you want to pursue it further then the best place is to file a ticket on the JOSM Issue Tracker.

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JOSM has some guidelines it follows when adding presets to the built-in list.
Of note:

  • New top-level presets must have an svg icon (if it is not area-only and can be put on points).
  • Proper documentation on the wiki (the wiki page for office=forestry is not great)
  • Decent usage numbers – from TagInfo, there are a bit under 2k usages. We do have a CI job that looks for documented tags with over 10k uses.
  • Worldwide use (from TagInfo, this does look to be the case)
  • Used by a reasonable number of mappers
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For completeness, if you look here and sort the list by “keys” you’ll see that JOSM’s full list is a country mile ahead of what anything with an entry at taginfo is ever going to show on a map.

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Thank you!

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