2012/9/13 Andrew Errington <erringt...@gmail.com>: > I'm not sure if a common tag would be ideal. > > Off the top of my head we have 'stables', 'kennels' and 'cattery'. Each name > is very specific. Also, they are not limited to welfare (lost, abandoned or > abused animals), there are commercial businesses which look after animals > while their owners go on vacation. Since they generally look after the same > kind of animal (not mixed), this should be indicated by the tag, i.e. > amenity=kennels, amenity=stables, amenity=cattery > > For the welfare situation I suppose we could have amenity=animal_shelter, or > animal_sanctuary. These generally do have a mix of animals, but of course > dogs and cats are most common. There are also specialist shelters for birds, > seals, otters etc., but probably "animal_shelter" would cover those too.
There are already some tags in (sparse) use: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=animal%3Dshelter The animal tag seems to be used also in an animal=<kind_of_animal> way ( http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/animal#values ) but to avoid multiple values this doesn't make much sense and is also documented differently in the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Animal (has an example for animal=shelter, dog=yes) And there is some amenity=animal_shelter in the db: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=animal_shelter As there are differences between an animal_shelter for dogs and a breeding kennel I agree that a new tag can be introduced. The proposal should explain the differences and when to use which. The word "kennel" seems to have several meanings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennel_(disambiguation) so I suggest to be more explicit in the wording. What about changing the kennel-proposal in order to introduce 2 new tags: animal=breeding_kennel (for places where dogs are propagated) and animal=boarding_kennel (for "dog hotels" that don't have a welfare component and do not propagate animals) and to propose unification of amenity=animal_shelter and animal=shelter to animal=shelter (which is the suggested tagging according to several wiki pages) for welfare related structures. There is already a suggestion to add the animal that is dealt with (dog=yes, cat=yes, ...) on the animal page in the wiki. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
