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  • OSM “categories” are not mapped one to one with CoMaps categories.

    office=notary is interpreted as a synonym of office=lawyer. You can see this replacement in this file:

    https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/src/branch/main/data/replaced_tags.txt#L96

    So all notary offices are displayed as lawyer’s offices. There are 50k lawyer’s offices in OSM, while only 10k notaries, maybe it would be good time to separate them, maybe there were fewer when support for these tags was added. Taginfo comparison

    Osmand uses a totally different map generation workflow, so it’s expected that you see different things there. Osmand tries to stay close to the upstream OSM tagging shenanigans, while CoMaps aims to be a more user friendly app, you can see it here again.

    but can’t select the category to see all PoIs from this category on map.

    If you search for the name of a subcategory CoMaps will show that in the search result. If you tap on that it will highlight elements with that subcategory. So search for “archaeological site”