Two big counter-examples to your argument are restaurants and places of worship: "If I'm looking for a [Chinese restaurant or Catholic church] I am not interested in finding also a [pizza restaurant or Synagogue]"
That said, what you're proposing (separate amenity tags for different types of other schools) seems to be what's happening anyway, albeit slowly. Here's the top amenity tags with a value including school (from http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/?key=amenity#values, searching for values with "school"): school 546360 driving_school 3851 preschool 225 dancing_school 174 ski_school 112 school;place_of_worship 92 music_school 65 language_school 40 prep_school 35 dance_school 19 School 18 school;kindergarten 12 place_of_worship;school 10 schoolyard 10 couching_school 8 pre_school 8 riding_school 8 boarding_school 6 kindergarten;school 6 nursery_school 6 diving_school 5 musical_school 5 private_school 5 professional_school 5 sport_school 5 art_school 4 school (historic) 4 tuition_school 4 And it goes on like that with things like cooking, dog, aviation, sailing, art, etc schools. So if this seems like the way forward, it would at least be good to document a list of values people can refer to. Also, fwiw, amenity=tutoring is used 15 times and amenity=tutor 9 times. Brad On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]>wrote: > > 2013/9/6 fly <[email protected]> > >> -1 >> >> Can't we use a different key like education or training and then use >> subkeys ? >> >> I do not like to find a new amenity=* for each kind of educational >> service or training. >> > > > > What would be the benefit? If I'm looking for a language school I am not > interested in finding also dancing schools or driving schools or diving > schools, or chess training or basketball training. They also do have almost > nothing in common. We don't follow this approach for most other tags > neither (e.g. highway=road, road=primary or amenity=shop, shop=grocery). > This subtagging idea comes up from time to time, but there is really not > much benefit IMHO if the objects are completely different. Subtags should > be used to distinguish similar features, e.g. for which language they offer > courses, but "training" is really too generic to give any reasonable > results if standing alone. > > cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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