Thanks a lot for the feedback received so far. Well noted regarding the wider "dispensary" meaning, let's try to agree on another word ;-) And it's helpful to see that these tags could be used on other continents too.
Regarding the current values of the healthcare key, it seems to me that while half of them are effectively based on the main provider side (dentist, doctor, nurse, midwife...) as described by Joseph, the other half are described as facilities (hospital, clinic, centre, laboratory, hospice, birthing_center...). Even the definition of the key says healthcare=* is used to map a facility that provides healthcare (part of the healthcare sector). Therefore, if we keep the facility angle, "health_post" and "community_care_site" values would make sense. Otherwise, based on the main provider, we could use "nurse" and "community_relay" (if this literal translation makes any sense in English). Which option makes more sense in your opinion and why? Claire On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 12:32 AM Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 23:59, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> But I would not recommend using "dispensary" for the tag value, because >> as mentioned above, in North American English this is used for a shop which >> dispenses medical marijuana, and accordign to Oxford, in British English it >> means "A room where medicines are prepared and provided". >> > > Back before the name "pharmacy" became common in the UK, we had > "dispensing chemists" referring to the shop where drugs were dispensed. > The > Wikipedia article on dispensary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensary > discusses this meaning (a place where drugs are dispensed), and no other, > in its > introduction. Yet for some reason, despite it not being mentioned at all > in the > introduction, the first section after the introduction discusses its > meaning as > an outpatient health facility in Kenya. > > Yes, this would cause confusion in OSM. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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