Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

2008-06-07 Thread Mark Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists) wrote: Chris Hill wrote: Clinic can apply to other medical folks, such as chiropodists and physiotherapists too. And physical rehabilitation, dementia care, psychiatric counseling... the list might be quite a

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

2008-06-07 Thread Mark Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists) wrote: Chris Hill wrote: Clinic can apply to other medical folks, such as chiropodists and physiotherapists too. And physical rehabilitation, dementia care, psychiatric counseling... the list might be quite a

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

2008-06-07 Thread sergio sevillano
i think amenity=clinic medical=servicelist emergency=yes|no would work great, here in spain we have centro de salud (=health center) wich is public health care. there is one in each village or suburb. they are meant to liberate mayor hospitals of 1st aid and not so important/critical

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

2008-06-07 Thread sergio sevillano
sergio sevillano escribió: i think amenity=clinic medical=servicelist emergency=yes|no would work great, here in spain we have centro de salud (=health center) wich is public health care. there is one in each village or suburb. they are meant to liberate mayor hospitals of 1st aid and

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

2008-06-07 Thread graham
For the UK we should also flag which PCT (Primary Care Trust) each clinic etc is in. Is is_in appropriate for organizational membership? Graham Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists) wrote: Chris Hill wrote: Clinic can apply to other medical folks, such as chiropodists and physiotherapists too.

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

2008-06-07 Thread Thomas Wood
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 10:14 +0100, graham wrote: For the UK we should also flag which PCT (Primary Care Trust) each clinic etc is in. Is is_in appropriate for organizational membership? Graham That would be a horrible overriding. is_in represents the physical (and legal to some extent)

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

2008-06-07 Thread Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists)
Mark Williams wrote: Actually, having gone back re-read the actual proposal, the O.P. wanted this tag to _distinguish_ other clinics from the specific ones... so it's the bit about merging them, above, that I didn't like, not the actual proposed feature, in case that last mail was unclear :)

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

2008-06-07 Thread Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists)
Thomas Wood wrote: The operator= tag already is used for similar puposes, and would fit well (Mostly bus routes I believe) It might clash slightly with the suggestion for public to be used in the operator tag to differentiate it from private medical establishments. +1. I'd be happy with

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

2008-06-06 Thread Andrew Chadwick (email lists)
What are peoples' thoughts on medical facilities that can't really be represented as either hospitals or pharmacies? For example small clinics for minor surgery, doctors (UK: General Practitioners' surgeries) and dentists? There are a few proposals out there already (still):

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

2008-06-06 Thread Chris Hill
Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote: What are peoples' thoughts on medical facilities that can't really be represented as either hospitals or pharmacies? For example small clinics for minor surgery, doctors (UK: General Practitioners' surgeries) and dentists? There are a few proposals out

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

2008-06-06 Thread Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists)
Chris Hill wrote: Clinic can apply to other medical folks, such as chiropodists and physiotherapists too. And physical rehabilitation, dementia care, psychiatric counseling... the list might be quite a long one. I'm coming round to the opinion that the different kinds of surgeries are all