In general at my university we usually talk about "wet labs" vs "dry labs", mostly in regards to hazardous materials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_lab And for wet labs, there are different levels for biosafety... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 10:04 PM Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/03/19 21:25, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > Am Mo., 4. März 2019 um 09:37 Uhr schrieb Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: > >> >> >> These can be commercialfirms, part of the government, or part of a >> university etc. >> >> They usually specialise in one field so will need sub tags. > > > > > I would question whether we put all kind of "laboratory" into the same > category and distinguish them by subtags. There are too many different kind > of things that could be subsummized as "laboratory". Think about eletronic > laboratories, chemistry research labs, biochemical labs, labs for human > healtcare analytics, etc. > First distinction could be "research lab" vs. "analytical lab" vs. maybe > more types, and these should IMHO become main tags, not subtags. > > There is also some potential confusion with the word "laboratory" being > used as a hyped name for workspace where you would not expect it, e.g. > software laboratory, architectural design laboratory, art laboratory, etc. > So we would need some definition, what the criterion for "laboratory" is > (or is it the name?). > > > To me a true 'laboratory' has controlled environmental conditions, usually > temperature is tightly controlled, the better labs have humidity control > probably not as tight. > They may have other things controlled too - such as radio interference, > dust. > > A software, art or architectural design laboratory would not meet these > conditions. The key being that the control is tighter (narrower) > environmental control than, say for example, an office environment. > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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