Gregory Williams wrote: > I think: > - Document it in the singular form (the other amenities are singular > (except toilets, where there are facilities per gender), so it matches > reality).
As I see it, amenity=toilets are plural because there are typically multiple stalls or urinals: quite often the gents can be in a completely separate location to the ladies, even if both have the same name. Also true of doctors' offices quite a lot of the time, where you'll have more than one GP, each with his/her own nameplate and consulting room, and a shared waiting / reception area. That's the pattern for many city GP practices in .uk anyway. Could also be laziness in use of language: albeit a sort of laziness that's common to both tags. And being a lazy developer, I'll probably go with established JOSM / t...@h practice: plural. > - Send another mail to the list to give notice that you intend to update > amenity=doctors to amenity=doctor via a bot in say a fortnight's time. > That gives people time to update rendering rules to match the new tag if > they're using it on some private map. Good plan, should we go that route. I'll try to be a little careful with this too, given that a similar 'bot seems to have mangled amenity=clinic to amenity=hospital recently. Seems to have arisen purely due to the similarity of the English word "clinic" to the German word "klinik" :( > - Open for voting if you like, but with over 1700 uses in the two forms > combined I think it's safe to say that it's considered a useful tag > already. Probably. Certainly that should count towards it. -- Andrew Chadwick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
