It's been bugging me that most schools in OSM in Australia don't have many additional tags describing what years they service, if they are exclusive to one gender or co-ed, if they are private or public, selective or non-selective, etc.
I think part of the problem is the tags haven't always been well documented and accepted, so I'd like to add a new section to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines for Australian specific tagging of schools, but I'm looking for feedback on what those guidelines in the Australian context should be. Working off https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dschool additional tags include: * operator Possible values could be "Catholic Education Commission NSW", "NSW Department of Education"? Do people think this would be enough to distinguish private/independent from public/government schools? * isced:level https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:isced:level Should be universal across the globe so I think it's worth using. I populated the Australian details on the wiki as isced:level=0 -> Preschool (distinct from Childcare, typically run by the local council) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Education_in_Australia#Preschool isced:level=1 -> Primary Schools (Years K-6) isced:level=2 -> Secondary/High Schools (Years 7-10) isced:level=3 -> Secondary/High Schools (Years 11-12) or Secondary College What do others think about this? A K-12 school then simply isced:level 1-3. The problem is it doesn't allow flexibility of other year ranges, so could be used in combination with grades below. * grades https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:grades A recent proposal that would allow more fine grained tagging of school years offered. The big advantage is it's pretty much a 1:1 mapping of the year and the value of the key. So a school offering Years 7-8 ONLY would be grades=7-8. Very simple. Open question should Kindergarten (in NSW context) be K or 0? * fee=yes Potentially could be used to determine private schools, but I think it's best to leave that for the operator key, and fee only tags mandatory fees to attend. * Specialist Schools Any recommendations on how we can classify? Including "Special" schools which typically cater for specific types of disability, sports, language, agricultural, technology, creative schools, international schools (which don't follow the local curriculum rather their home country curriculum and teaching style), culture specific (eg. a Japanese School), demonstration schools etc. Other tags like religion are well documented already for religious schools, co-ed/single sex schools aren't special to Australia so not something to consider here. Academically selective schools don't _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
