The issue I see with prep school is that it can be very easily confused with a Preparatory School, commonly referred to as a Prep School. I believe the term is used in both British and American English, i.e. Prepy.
Phil (trigpoint) On Friday, 5 July 2019, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > I followed a link from amenity=school to amenity=prep_school, which > was only as stub with the text "Tutorial schools" and > description="Tutor school". > > Taghistory shows it has been used since 2012, slowly increasing to a > few hundred uses since 2018, but had no wiki page still March 2019. > > However, I found out that this tag has now been added to > osmlab/name_suggestion_index for brands like Kumon - an East Asian > test prep centre, aka "cram school". > > Unfortunately, this usage does not at all match the UK or US English > meanings of "Prep School": > > 1) "Prep school": in the UK, a private primary school for children, > especially boys, between the ages of 7 and 13, who will then usually > go to "public school" (a type of private secondary school). See > https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/prep-school > > 2) "college preparatory school", informally "Prep school" (North > American English), a type of secondary school where there students > plan to attend University. See > https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/preparatory-school > > I couldn't find any definition of "prep school" which mentioned test > prep centers, as in this wikipedia article: > http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_preparation - perhaps it's Singaporean > or Hong Kong English, or a translation error? > > So, what's a better term for a test prep centre, cramp school, or > tutoring office? There the rarely used tag office=tutoring, but that > doesn't quite cover a place like Kaplan or Kumon - > https://au.kumonglobal.com/ - https://www.kaptest.com/ > > amenity=test_prep > amenity=cram_school > office=test_prep > amenity=tutoring > > Other options? > > -Joseph > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Sent from my Sailfish device _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
