On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Toby Murray <[email protected]> wrote:

> We were just discussing the amenity tag in #osm. If we are inventing a new
> tag, can we avoid using amenity? Whatever a ranger station is, it is not an
> "amenity" and I would like to stop the spread of this woefully overloaded
> tag. It may *have* some amenities like toilets, drinking fountains or guide
> maps but it is not itself an amenity.


Toby,
I agree that amenity is probably overused. However, looking at the similar
usage of the amenity tag, ranger_station would be the likely candidate to
fall under amenity. Under amenity there is, police, townhall, fire_station,
courthouse, public_building, public_facility, village_hall, etc.

Do you recommendation of a better tag? Personally I like the thought of
leisure=park park=ranger_station. But that doesn't fit the current schema.

-- 
Clifford

OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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