Tag:office=consulting
 office = consulting
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An office for a consulting firm, providing expert professional advice to other companies or organisations. 
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| Group: offices |
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An office for a consulting firm, providing expert professional advice to other companies or organisations.
It can be an office of a large consulting firm with several areas of expertise (KPMG, Accenture), or a smaller firm that provides consulting services in a specific sector (energy, industry, IT, environment). In both cases, the client of the consulting firm is another company or organisation, and not a physical person.
 | Do not use for places where any person can come and receive advice (legal advice, family planning, medium, etc). Such places are probably better described with tags in amenity=* or social_facility=*. |
How to map
Set a node 
at the center of the feature or draw an area 
along its outline. Tag it with office=consulting and name=*. Then add an additional consulting=* tag to describe the area of expertise when appropriate.
Synonymous tags
There has been no formal proposal. Currently, there are many different tags used for the same purpose:
| office=consulting |
company=consulting |
office=innovation_consulting |
| office=consultant |
office=consultancy |
office=immigration_consultant |
| office=business_consultant |
office=planning_consultant |
As the table above reveals, there are several problems:
- three different forms: consulting, consultant, consultancy. The most OSM-ish tag would be consultant, but it's much less used than consulting. Also, a lot of these firm actually have consulting as part of their name, so it makes office=consulting the currently preferred form until a formal proposal is written.
- subclassification of the type of consulting firm as a brand new office=* tag, while it should go in an additional consulting=* subtag instead.