On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:07 PM, alyssa wright <alyssapwri...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Again, thanks for all the discussion. I'm following most of it. ;) I > think... > > Could I attempt to articulate what I consider the major confusion in the > existing kindergarten tag? Perhaps this is already known, but perhaps an > explanation could inspire a graceful resolution. > > In the US, (and according to the Oxford dictionary Australia and Britain), > kindergarten is legally defined for 5 and 6 year olds. There are cases > where parents have attempted to enroll a child of below 5 into kindergarten > and have been legally refused. Instead there are a number of facilities > that accommodate children below the age of 5. > ... It is my understanding that kindergarten means something very different in > other places of the world. How does OSM account for such cultural > differences? Perhaps the childcare proposal should not try to replace > kindergarten, but instead try to disassociate childcare from the > kindergarten umbrella? > > But I am not sure I know enough about tags to propose something > appropriate. > I think the clearest is to use "amenity=childcare", and document that the age range taken should be tagged (either with an "age-range=a..b" or with "age_start=a" and "age_end=b"), and document that "amenity=kindergarten" should be processed as an alias for this. (I don't *regard* it as an alias, but I'm happy to *process* it as one. particularly when the age range is made explicit separately.) This avoids using different words for age ranges, that might be interpreted differently in different places / cultures; and also avoids multiple-valued tags for facilities which cover what someone regards as several named age ranges. Apart from that, I'd generally go along with the proposals in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/childcare2.0, particularly "pedagogy=" as I'm sure adherents of a particular system (e.g. Montessori) will be looking for that information. __John
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