Re: [Tagging] Health and other stories
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:02:23 +0100, sabas88 wrote: > Hi list, > I want to suggest a topic of discussion not often considered: planning a > more rational tagging system to be applied onto the existing data and for > the future. Stefano, you know I fully support you. We started a similar thread on talk-it, and every time I tried to rationalize the tagging system a bit, I've always had people complain about "changing the status quo". I now started working, so I don't really have the time, nor the energies, to sustain long flames on mailing lists :) -- but be assured you have my +1000 (because "+1" is just not enough here). > For instance the discussion could start with a simple case: healthcare. > Now the health facilities are tagged in amenity (when I go to the dentist > I'm not happy as I would be in a bar!) [..] Poor you. You'd be happier if I were your dentist ;) Have a nice evening, David (a just-graduated-dentist) ;) -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 | http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174 signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
[Tagging] Health and other stories
Hi list, I want to suggest a topic of discussion not often considered: planning a more rational tagging system to be applied onto the existing data and for the future. (OK, it's flame time! :D) For instance the discussion could start with a simple case: healthcare. Now the health facilities are tagged in amenity (when I go to the dentist I'm not happy as I would be in a bar!), but (in my dream world :) ) they should deserve a seperate key: I found two proposals, one contested [1] and one in RFC status [2] (but I somewhat dislike it at a first glance). Same discussion could be started on education, culture and so on. Perhaps the amenity key is abused as a POI collector, but in my humble opinion, there should be more categories (or, if you like, subcategories as amenity=health, health=* but it's less effective). (Un)Occupy the Amenity key! Regards, Stefano PS This email seems ironic, but I would seriously like to promote discussion on this topic. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Healthcare [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Healthcare_2.0 ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
