Native speaker here too. How about amenity=animal_boarding instead of kennel? "Boarding" typically refers to places you can pay to leave your dogs, cats, horses, etc. for a period and have them be cared for. One could also add additional tags like dogs=yes, cats=yes, etc., since these facilities sometimes do take more than one kind of animal.
Sanctuaries and humane societies, as well as training facilities, etc. would be different tags. Just my two cents! -Mele Sax-Barnett -----Original Message----- Martin wrote: > Actually I just revived an old proposal for stables [1]. My first > thought was to simply use stables=<animal> until someone with much > better english language skills pointed out that stables usually only > refer to horses. I would also like to see one common tag for "some > place where animals are kept and taken care of". Any suggestions from native > speakers? I'm a native speaker... Only few types of animal have specific names for where they are kept; the rest would come under "farm", "zoo", "wildlife park", "animal rescue" and perhaps "nature reserve". Also, some countries have animal quarantine facilities. The only ones that I can think of at short notice are: horse, donkey: stable dog: kennel cat: cattery birds: aviary, dovecote bees: apiary There are several types of kennel, including boarding (for looking after pet dogs while you are away) and hunt kennels for hounds; also other working dogs e.g. police dogs, military dogs. (Catteries are for boarding.) Historically, rabbits were kept in artificial warrens that people built for them! But now, commercial rearing of rabbits probably comes under "farm". There's probably a special word for where working ferrets are kept (English tends to have words like that), but I don't know what it is, and it might vary between dialects anyway. __John ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging End of Tagging Digest, Vol 36, Issue 21 *************************************** _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
