On 03.06.2013 21:33, Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote: > I think that the OSM wiki > <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dschool> is both > precise and good on the use of amenity=school > > Use amenity > <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:amenity>=*school* to > identify a place where pupils, normally between the ages of about 5 > and 18 are taught under the supervision of teachers. This includes > primary and secondary schools. > > > Intuitively the "K-12" (primary + secondary schools - often the > combination of elementary + highschool) are "school" in this sense. > Pre-school and kindergarten are sometimes called "school" but are part > of the "school system" in the same way. The primary and (sometimes) > secondary schools are often also the more or less compulsory schools. > > I think if would be best if the OSM tagging clearly kept amenity=school > for this (K-12/primary+secondary) and we used other tags for other types > of schools / "educational places". > And this is what the original question was about -- how to tag other > than K-12 schools? > > The closest (partial) solution we could find is the proposed > amenity=trade_school (that has only one (1!) occurrance in the db). I > added that to > the http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Education_features page -- and > we'll be likely using that for the various professional training > facilities that we run into on the ground in Haiti unless something > better comes up. > > Related to this: I would personally like to see a very general education > POI tag that would be good for any and every educational POI that we run > into, which doesn't have a "dedicated" tag (such as amenity=school, > =college, =university, =kindergarten, =driving_school, =dojo, =what-not). > Does anyone else think that such tag would be good -- and if yes do you > think that amenity=education > <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=education> (used > currently 109 times) could be acceptable for that?
+1 even then all already existing tags could be included within the education subtags. cu fly _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
