On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Paul Norman <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, neither is CAP (Centre d'Animation Pédagogique) but both represents the > Educational hierarchy used to "locate" a school in Mali. What should I do ? > Use a country prefix ? Something else ? > OSM tags are supposed to be in British English. Furthermore, you shouldn't > be using a tagging system that's specific to a country. I don't know school > tagging well enough to suggest an alternative. You may even find that it's > not something mappers generally care about or tag and you shouldn't include.
In France, we have ~24.000 "school:FR" tags in use. But this is a secondary tag, not remplacing the "amenity=school" and provides the French details about schools (see [1]). We went to this solution because school systems are too different between countries. Pieren [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:school:FR#Type_d.27.C3.A9cole _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
