Re: [Tagging] tagging laboratories

2019-03-06 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 3:15 PM Paul Allen wrote: > Unsurprisingly, the English "Laboratory" also derives from the Latin. The > Latin, as you stated, > means a place where one labours or works. Somehow, in English, it appears > only to ever have > meant a place where one conducts scientific

Re: [Tagging] tagging laboratories

2019-03-06 Thread Paul Allen
On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 19:28, Sergio Manzi wrote: > I agree with Volker and I also woul like to underline how in Italian we > use the sister word "laboratorio" (*both com from the Latin "labor, > "work"*) for some craftmanship activity: we call a "laboratorio" also the > places where a goldsmith

Re: [Tagging] tagging laboratories

2019-03-06 Thread Sergio Manzi
I agree with Volker and I also woul like to underline how in Italian we use the sister word "laboratorio" (/both com from the Latin "labor, "work"/) for some craftmanship activity: we call a "laboratorio" also the places where a goldsmith or an orthodontic mechanic performs their craft, and the

Re: [Tagging] tagging laboratories

2019-03-06 Thread Volker Schmidt
My point was only to be aware that we in front of one of many cases where the same English word has many meanings and that may produce the effect of regrouping under one tag with subtags could produce problems. "Laboratory" certainly needs a disambiguation page, On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 15:15, Kevin

Re: [Tagging] tagging laboratories

2019-03-06 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 2:51 AM Volker Schmidt wrote: > > ... and then there are big research centres that are called "laboratory". > Like LLNL or Los Alamos National Laboratory. The two near me (GE Global Research Center; Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory) I've simply tagged 'landuse=industrial'.

Re: [Tagging] tagging laboratories

2019-03-06 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Di., 5. März 2019 um 17:57 Uhr schrieb Jmapb : > On 3/5/2019 2:48 AM, Volker Schmidt wrote: > > > ... and then there are big research centres that are called > > "laboratory". Like LLNL or Los Alamos National Laboratory. > > > These sorts of things I've seen tagged as

Re: [Tagging] tagging laboratories

2019-03-05 Thread Mark Wagner
On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 14:03:37 +1100 Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/03/19 21:25, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > > Am Mo., 4. März 2019 um 09:37 Uhr schrieb Warin > > <61sundow...@gmail.com >: > > > > > > > > These can be commercialfirms, part of the

Re: [Tagging] tagging laboratories

2019-03-05 Thread Jmapb
On 3/5/2019 2:48 AM, Volker Schmidt wrote: ... and then there are big research centres that are called "laboratory". Like LLNL or Los Alamos National Laboratory. These sorts of things I've seen tagged as amenity=research_institute. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=research

Re: [Tagging] tagging laboratories

2019-03-04 Thread Volker Schmidt
... and then there are big research centres that are called "laboratory". Like LLNL or Los Alamos National Laboratory. On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, 06:08 Kevin, wrote: > In general at my university we usually talk about "wet labs" vs "dry > labs", mostly in regards to hazardous materials. > >

Re: [Tagging] tagging laboratories

2019-03-04 Thread Kevin
In general at my university we usually talk about "wet labs" vs "dry labs", mostly in regards to hazardous materials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_lab And for wet labs, there are different levels for biosafety... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at

Re: [Tagging] tagging laboratories

2019-03-04 Thread Warin
On 04/03/19 21:25, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Am Mo., 4. März 2019 um 09:37 Uhr schrieb Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com >: These can be commercialfirms, part of the government, or part of a university etc. They usually specialise in one field so will

Re: [Tagging] tagging laboratories

2019-03-04 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Mo., 4. März 2019 um 09:37 Uhr schrieb Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: > > > These can be commercialfirms, part of the government, or part of a > university etc. > > They usually specialise in one field so will need sub tags. I would question whether we put all kind of "laboratory" into the

Re: [Tagging] tagging laboratories

2019-03-04 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
Mar 4, 2019, 9:35 AM by 61sundow...@gmail.com: > Hi, > > From > > https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/62806/how-to-tag-a-research-laboratory > > > > and > >

[Tagging] tagging laboratories

2019-03-04 Thread Warin
Hi, From https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/62806/how-to-tag-a-research-laboratory and https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/thevikas/diary/47849 There appearsto be no information on how to tag a laboratory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory These can be commercialfirms, part of