I agree, Martin. I already mentioned these same problems on the Talk:Proposed_features/Tag:healthcare:equipment page, 2 or 3 days ago, with no response yet.
I am going to recommend that this tag not be approved at this time, but I sincerely hope that the team at healthsites.io will address the concerns and develop a tag system for medical equipment and facilities which is easy to use and unambiguous. My recommendation is to use mri=yes, ultrasound=yes, laboratory=yes etc. as property tags, and to use the key healthcare=* or amenity=* (without a namespace - it's not needed) for separate features like healthcare=laboratory - an already documented tag BTW. The proposal and eventual wiki pages should clarify that different tags are normally used for features and properties: see the wiki page "One feature, One OSM Element" Joseph Eisenberg On 8/2/19, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > sent from a phone > >> On 1. Aug 2019, at 22:18, Mhairi O'Hara <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> "Indicates what type of speciality medical equipment is available at a >> health facility" >> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:healthcare:equipment > > > I am not sure this should already go to voting, documentation is still > rather vague and it is somehow indicative that the status is still set to > draft. The rationale is quite detailed but actual tagging must mostly be > imagined. I would suggest to have this discussed for another round and be > more explicit about the proposed values. > > To me it is not even completely clear whether this should be used as a > property or defines an explicit feature, although it seems more thought as a > property (but then there are the size considerations). > > For example you mention “operating theatre” (we are using BE spelling for > tags), emergency_department and laboratory as possible values. To me neither > of these seems a good fit for an _equipment_ tag, and IMHO for things like > these we should choose a representation that allows for easy addition of > more detail if desired (e.g. operating theatre capacity, location of > emergency department and its access points, details for capabilities of the > lab, etc.) > > Cheers Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
