Thanks for adding productivity to the conversation!
> On Jul 22, 2014, at 1:53 PM, John Packer <john.pack...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Friends, > > I've had this in my to-do list for a while, and the recent discussion about > min_age and age_group prompted me to bring attention to this issue. > > We should review the way kindergartens are being tagged. > From what I have seen, one thing seems clear: there is demand for > differentiating between places where kids are simply taken care of, and > places where kids have basic education, but not at school level. > > First, some history I discovered looking in the wiki: > * amenity=preschool[1] was proposed in the past to differentiate between > places where kids go learn things(preschool) and places where kids are simply > cared for (kindergarden). It was rejected in the voting process. (it has ~220 > uses currently [2]) > * one alternative way of tagging a preschool would be to tag it as > amenity=school + isced:level=0, while kindergarten becomes simply the place > where kids are taken care of. One problem with this is that it seems an ISCED > level might not fit so well with all countries's education system (some > people mentioned it doesn't with Germany's [3]). > * amenity=childcare [4] was proposed in the past to differentiate between > places where kids go learn things(kindergarten) and places where kids are > simply cared for (childcare). It was rejected in the voting process. But > turns out that nowadays amenity=childcare is supported by the iD editor [5] > and consequently has around 1400 uses. > > My humble opinion is that Kindergarten seems to be defined as the place where > kids get some basic education [7], and it's probably used like that, so it > should remain that way (even if it may have some overlap with isced:level=0). > While amenity=childcare (that has already gained traction) should be > representative of the Day Care or Child Care [8]. > As far as I saw, amenity=childcare is simply an rejected feature according to > the wiki, and we should fix that. > > Cheers, > John > > [1]: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Pre-School_%28early_childhood_education%29 > [2]: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org//search?q=amenity%3Dpreschool > [3]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:isced:level#Germany > [4]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/childcare > [5]: > https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/blob/874a3e2ad67e77e8896ff9580d40bf990eaed974/dist/locales/en.json#L1136 > [6]: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=amenity%3Dchildcare > [7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindergarten > [8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_care > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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