<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Mar 19, 2018, at 3:18 PM, Philip Barnes <<a href="mailto:phil@trigpoint.me.uk" class="">phil@trigpoint.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Baby hatch sounds a horrible tag, sounds mechanical uncaring and impersonal. I assume it means a maternity ward?</span><br style="font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">As described in the tag documentation, a "baby hatch" is not a maternity ward, but a very specific service, and often a service that is separate from hospital or other health care services (although sometimes it's also included in hospitals). The "hatch" term apparently comes from the privacy that is inherent in such a system, where a parent may not want to be identified when giving up a child.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_hatch" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_hatch</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">These are important things to map as standalone items on OSM, I think. It doesn't look like the tag is frequently used at this point, and I don't know if there are other sources to find these particular venues. But they do exist, under different names in different countries and cultures.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Nick</div></body></html>