Ok, because according to English native speakers there isn't a single word that indicates "a facility where animals are kept and the staff feeds them and cares of them", I propose to change from "amenity=kennel" to "amenity=animal_shelter". In Italy there are centers for dogs only, cats only, dogs and cats, wild animals in general, wild sea animals only, wild birds only and so on. Any combination is potentially allowed, so adding a tag "dog=yes", "cat=yes", "wild_animals=yes", "wild_birds=yes" and so on is useful.
"pet_keeping" is not used according to taginfo and it is too restrictive: there are facilities that don't held pets but wild animals. "building=asylum" is not intuitive and it's not used according to taginfo. Moreover the key "building" is too restrictive for a center that can include buildings, meadows, courtyards. "Amenity=animal_boarding" is too restrictive: there are kennels that take stray dogs, catteries for stray cats, rescue centers for wounded wild animals. On the other hand "amenity=animal_shelter" is intuitive and already in use according to taginfo. Also "animal=shelter" is already in use: in the wiki animal page it's suggested to use it, but on what basis? There isn't any proposal page and it hasn't been voted. Ultimately I think we have to unify "amenity=animal_shelter" and "animal=shelter" in one tag, refine and officialize it. I think that with a feature page and with a preset in editors, one of these could become an universally used tag. Then we can refine it and add one or more additional tags for the purpose of the facility. I prefer "amenity=animal_shelter" to "animal=shelter" because according to wiki "amenities are an assortment of community facilities" and an animal shelter is one of them. On the other hand the key "animal" is not defined on the wiki and according to taginfo it's often used to indicate a species of animal or simply "animal=yes". We have already "amenity=veterinary" and not "animal=veterinary", so why not "amenity=animal_shelter"? Alberto _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
