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On 3/18/2018 3:23 PM, Charlotte Wolter wrote:<br>
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size="3">Paul,<br>
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kindergarten is a school, not a child-care center. They are two
fundamentally different things. Also, child-care centers serve a
range of
ages, not just 5-year-olds. I, too, tried to find a real
child-care tag a
few months ago. There is none, and "kindergarten" doesn't cut
it.<br>
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In American English kindergarten has this meaning, but
amenity=kindergarten is used for "Use the amenity=kindergarten for
establishments offering early years education and supervision (also
known as pre-schools) for children up to the age of formal (often
mandatory) school education. This tag is also currently used for
establishments where parents can leave their young children but
which provide no formal education."<br>
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When we get to specific uses, it is used for "a day facility for
children, covering a wider and overlapping range of crèche children
(0-3 years), kindergarten/preschool (3-6 years), and after-school
care for primary school children (6-12 years)"<br>
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I was looking for child-care a few months ago, and the places that I
found that were also in OSM were mapped with amenity=kindergarten.<br>
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Don't worry too much about the meaning of OSM tags in American
English. They're supposed to be defined in British English, and even
then, the meaning can shift as people use it, just like language
can.<br>
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