I think this proposal is quite elaborate and could be useful (with some modifications) as a kind of summary page to find useful tags for a particular school to be tagged as. It also contains useful concepts how additional detail could be added in a formalized way. But I don't think this is something that should get "approved" and then the whole tagging system that already is established, would be changed accordingly and hundreds of thousands of objects would get retagged – no.
education=* is currently tagged on 1000 objects. Did you check whether these confirm with this proposal? http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/education#values There are also quite some education-namespace-subkeys in use, that are not yet in the education 2.0 proposal. Will these be integrated? http://taginfo.osm.org/search?q=education This is quite a long list of tags. I'll comment on some tags where I believe comments are most useful: education <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:education>=kindergarten education <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:education>=school education <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:education>=college education <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:education>=university these appear to be all duplicates of amenity=... In your reasoning you write that the advantage of moving these to a new key is avoiding to keep a list of education related features in the amenity tags, but 'd rather keep this list than retagging all those objects and change all those data consumers. I also believe that these are too few classes to differentiate the type of institutions that occur (or you put them all under "school" and shift the problem one level up). E.g. professional schools (in German: Berufsbildende Schulen, further distinguished in Berufsschule and Berufsfachschule, see here in German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berufsbildende_Schule ), Fachhochschulen (Wikipedia:en calls them vocational universities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocational_university ) and likely more. What about research institutes? Not sure if they do educate, but I guess some might be considered also educational. Also on the lower end, there are some differentiations that I miss in your scheme, e.g. daycare for children under the age of 3 (maybe not educational?), daycare for children after the kindergarten or school closes, ... Further differentiation of schools (primary education, secondary education, different types of them). There are quite a lot of different particularities of schools if you look at the details (that are indeed interesting for who wants to select a school), and those are mostly country specific (or even sub-country specific, like in the case of Germany). There are quite some amenity=childcare (5k+) in use right now, but the proposal doesn't mention it: http://taginfo.osm.org/search?q=amenity%3Dchildcare There are also 191 amenity=preschool in use: http://taginfo.osm.org/search?q=amenity%3Dpreschool education <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:education>=subdivision there are also these keys in use: http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/faculty#overview http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/institute education_for:*ages* Have a look at the introduced tags min_age and max_age that are dealt with here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dkindergarten education_fee=* Why should we prepend the "education_" part to the well introduced key "fee" (also suggested on the kindergarten page linked above)? Are there different fees we would potentially want to tag for educational features? education_system:de_standard=yes This is not working, because a country code is not sufficient in Germany: there is no "German" standard, every Land has it's own standard, as education is the task of the Länder. education_for:*child* children (4-11 years) education_for:*adolescent* adolescents (12-19 years) education_for:*adult* adults (20 years and above) education_for:*senior* senior (60 years and above) education_for:*boy* boys (males below 20) education_for:*girl* girls (females below 20) education_for:*man* adult men (above 20) education_for:*woman* adult women (above 20) I don't think we should create age groups like this. These will always be completely arbitrary and depend on countryspecific legislation and will not fit well in a tagging scheme intended to map the whole world. E.g. adults starting at the age of 20 is not something that sounds familiar to me, generally there are different relevant ages that determine this step, e.g. age of majority, voting age, legal drinking age, marriageable age, age of consent, ... Have a look here where the age of majority is set in different countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_majority#Countries_and_subdivisions (note that the majority seems to set it at 18, although I didn't sum the populations up). I believe the min_age and max_age concept offers much more flexibility. Similar considerations are valid for the other age group tags. There is also an inherent problem leaving a gap for the age of 20 (adults are defined as 20+ while men and women are defined as 21+ and boys and girls are defined as 0-19). "boarding=yes" for boarding schools You prepended "education_" to almost every tag, but you didn't do it here, where it would be quite useful, as "boarding" does require context to understand the meaning, and there is the risk that the same tag might be used in different context as well. You can also see this from the (few) already used tags: http://taginfo.osm.org/search?q=boarding single_gender_education <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:single_gender_education&action=edit&redlink=1> =yes. according to spelling rules this should likely be "single-gender_education" education_form:fulltime / parttime If you look at a specific place, e.g. Berlin, you will see that there are more classes in use: - halbtags (half a day, 4-5 hours/day) - teilzeit (parttime, 5-7 hours/day) - ganztags (fulltime, 7-9hours/day) - ganztags erweitert (fulltime extended, more than 9 hours/day) Reference (see page 2, 1.5): https://www.berlin.de/ba-mitte/politik-und-verwaltung/aemter/jugendamt/kindertagesbetreuung/kita-und-hortanmeldungen/2013_kitaantrag_mit_einkommenserklaerung.pdf The scheme should be extended to cater at least for these additional classes (or changed to be more flexible, e.g. indicate the number of hours). Please excuse the brevity of my review but I don't have more time for this at the moment ;-) Cheers, Martin
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