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
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