<div dir="ltr">Hi Renaud,<br><br>Really great to see this data being added in OSM, a great input to help the reconstruction after the difficult past years for the country. My comments below.<br><br><br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 23:54:02 -0700<br>
From: Paul Norman <<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com" target="_blank">penorman@mac.com</a>><br>
To: renaud gaudin <<a href="mailto:rgaudin@gmail.com" target="_blank">rgaudin@gmail.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:imports@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">imports@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [Imports] Mali Schools<br>
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On 9/3/2014 12:21 PM, renaud gaudin wrote:<br>
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> - academie isn't British English.<br>
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> Yes, neither is CAP (Centre d'Animation Pédagogique) but both<br>
> represents the Educational hierarchy used to "locate" a school in<br>
> Mali. What should I do ? Use a country prefix ? Something else ?<br>
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OSM tags are supposed to be in British English. Furthermore, you<br>
shouldn't be using a tagging system that's specific to a country. I<br>
don't know school tagging well enough to suggest an alternative. You may<br>
even find that it's not something mappers generally care about or tag<br>
and you shouldn't include.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As schools levels are usually specific to a country, and would not mean anything or even misinterpretation (eg with college) they are actually adapted to the local context. Generally the only common, international one is amenity=school. For further details, see eg the ones made in France: here <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:Tag:amenity%3Dschool" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:Tag:amenity%3Dschool</a> (and its stats <a href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/school%3AFR" target="_blank">http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/school%3AFR</a>)<br><br></div><div>what can be adapted to Mali (school:ml=*) whose academic system is strongly related to the French one. For CAP and other specialisation, a third level tag is advised. For whoever interested by a school layer, these categories are really meaningful and important to include. <br><br></div><div>Would be great to change the upper case as suggested by Rafael, it is easy to do with LibreOffice Calc text functions.<br><br></div><div>It is also easy to switch a wikipage to another place from the upper banner buttons; I think creating a import sub page for the Mali page would make sense, and this import would be a subpage of the Mali>imports page.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again to make this import happen!<br></div><div><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Severin<br></div></div></div></div></div>