2013/7/10 alyssa wright <alyssapwri...@gmail.com>: > It is my understanding that kindergarten means something very different in > other places of the world. How does OSM account for such cultural > differences? Perhaps the childcare proposal should not try to replace > kindergarten, but instead try to disassociate childcare from the kindergarten > umbrella?
yes, it is mostly agreed that the current tagging scheme for childcare, nursery, kindergartens, day cares and other places where babies, small children, critters, infants etc. are looked after/cared for is insufficient for detailed tagging. This was even used in a talk at an university (I guess gender studies) as an example to demonstrate that OSM was mostly a bunch of ... males. > But I am not sure I know enough about tags to propose something appropriate. actually it is not so important to know about tags, you should know about the topic (childcare). Problem is that it seems that there are huge cultural and legal differences, so IMHO who wants to address this should first try to make a classification: what is the service offered, how can the instances be grouped. At this point, people from different cultural backgrounds should already be involved in order to make this as universally applicable as possible to similar institutions around the globe. E.g. set up a childcare 3.0 page and start brainstorming / writing down definitions for the different classes. There were intense discussions about this field also on the German ML not so long ago, so I am sure you will find other mappers interested and willing to contribute. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
