Re: [Diversity-talk] Who Maps The World

[Paul Norman]

On 3/18/2018 3:23 PM, Charlotte Wolter wrote:

Paul,

A kindergarten is a school, not a child-care center. They are two 
fundamentally different things. Also, child-care centers serve a range 
of ages, not just 5-year-olds. I, too, tried to find a real child-care 
tag a few months ago. There is none, and "kindergarten" doesn't cut it.


In American English kindergarten has this meaning, but 
amenity=kindergarten is used for "Use the amenity=kindergarten for 
establishments offering early years education and supervision (also 
known as pre-schools) for children up to the age of formal (often 
mandatory) school education. This tag is also currently used for 
establishments where parents can leave their young children but which 
provide no formal education."


When we get to specific uses, it is used for "a day facility for 
children, covering a wider and overlapping range of crèche children (0-3 
years), kindergarten/preschool (3-6 years), and after-school care for 
primary school children (6-12 years)"


I was looking for child-care a few months ago, and the places that I 
found that were also in OSM were mapped with amenity=kindergarten.


Don't worry too much about the meaning of OSM tags in American English. 
They're supposed to be defined in British English, and even then, the 
meaning can shift as people use it, just like language can.
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Re: [Diversity-talk] Mapper of the Month: Nathalie Sidibe (Mali).

[Heather Leson]

Nathalie, thank you for all your leadership!

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On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:26 PM, Nathalie SIDIBE  wrote:

> Thank you too, Rebecca, Marc ! It's an honour to me to be the Mapper of
> this Month.
>
> 2018-03-08 14:00 GMT+00:00 Rebecca Firth :
>
>> Thank you for sharing, a great read, very pertinent for International
>> Women's Day, and Nathalie you are very inspirational!
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 7:58 AM, Marc Gemis  wrote:
>>
>>> More luck than planning, but on the IWD2018, we have the honour to
>>> present our interview with Nathalie Sidibe from Mali
>>>
>>> in English: http://www.osm.be/2018/03/08/en-motm-nathalie-sidibe.html
>>> in French (original): http://www.osm.be/2018/03/08/f
>>> r-motm-nathalie-sidibe.html
>>>
>>> a.o. she talks how OSM helps her fighting for more democracy and women
>>> rights in Mali.
>>>
>>> In case you are not familiar with the series, since November 2014 we
>>> publish a monthly interview with a mapper. It all started in Belgium,
>>> and while the focus is still on Belgium (to get to know each other
>>> better in our little community), we also interview people from other
>>> countries. The complete list can be found here [1].
>>>
>>> So far we have interviewed 5 women and 1 group of women, employees of
>>> MapBox and Telenav, mappers from Nepal, Colombia, USA, UK, Germany,
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> I hope to keep on showing the diversity of OSM in this series, so any
>>> ideas for interviews or help with translation or contacting people in
>>> languages other than Dutch, French and German are welcome.
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> m
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Belg
>>> ian_Mapper_of_the_Month
>>>
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