Don't we already tag tertiary schools differently by the following tags?: amenity=university amenity=college
In my country, colleges are a separate classification from universities, so the two tags already somewhat makes sense. But I would like a way to tag if a school provides primary education, secondary, or both. By the way, how do you tag specialized schools--those that don't provide basic education but some other specialized subject such as a culinary school, or a martial arts school, or a music school? On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Josh Doe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Andrew Harvey <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I've been using what makes sense locally. For me that is, >> >> school:level={primary|secondary|...} >> school:sector={public|private} >> school:selective={yes|no} >> >> But perhaps I should be using school:au:level, school:au:selective and >> school:au:sector like Pieren is. >> >> Regardless I think it should be up to mappers inside an educational >> district to decide what makes sense for their region. >> >> In my region you could further mark if the private school is religious >> or not and the type of religion, but I haven't actually done any >> tagging like that. > > I think creating some 205 different tagging schemes (one for each > country) is a bit excessive, and we don't do this for other tags. > However I'd agree that not every country will fit into one scheme. I > would propose almost exactly what you use, and I think it should work > for the vast majority of countries: > > school:level={early|primary|secondary|tertiary} > school:sector={public|private} > > But I suppose primary and secondary are the only ones that would be > used much in practice, since tertiary already would be covered > (in-part) by amenity=university, amenity=college, and early is covered > (in-part) by amenity=kindergarten. > > Then of course each country is free to create it's own more detailed > system. In the US it would likely include > school:us:level={elementary,middle,high} since for some reason we > break secondary into two levels. Optionally people could use > school:level:isced= if they want a universal classification with more > levels than just school:level. > > -Josh > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
