So what's the consensus on clinics? If there is a consenus (rather than the
usual bunfight) I'll amend the wiki pages to make it explicit that clinic
can be used for units/departments/centres in hospitals.
I even do not know whether there is a consensus. In Germany, we use "amenity=clinic" often for everything which has not "hospital" (in german) in their name but looks like a hospital, often the difference is just emergency=no. Many of them are healthcare=rehabilitation, is amenity=clinic then still fitting also with that?
Lukas
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On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 11:29, Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
Right, that doesn't work. If the HIV clinic or department has
different details, such as a different name, opening_hours, website,
etc, then it will need to be mapped as a separate feature, such as an
amenity=clinic node inside of the amenity=hospital area.
implication, healthcare=clinic as the wiki states it's an alternative
to amenity=clinic). The wiki pages for healthcare=clinic and
amenity=clinic don't seem to explicitly state that these tags are
appropriate for units/departments/centres of hospitals.
I agree with your view. The value "clinic" may not have been the best we
could have chosen but there doesn't seem to be any other value to use
for the X-ray department, diabetes centre, renal dialysis unit, etc. of a
hospital. Before the current crisis I was mapping my nearest general
hospital and using amenity=clinic + healthcare=clinic in this way.
The only reason to think otherwise is that the wiki page on healthcare
lists only two specialities for clinics: abortion and fertility, indicating that
at least one person considered clinics to be standalone and not normally
part of hospitals.
So what's the consensus on clinics? If there is a consenus (rather than the
usual bunfight) I'll amend the wiki pages to make it explicit that clinic
can be used for units/departments/centres in hospitals.
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Paul
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