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On 21/04/2011 16:13, Flaimo wrote:
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<pre wrap="">created a proposal for amenity=daycare:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/daycare">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/daycare</a>
more information on wikipedia: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daycare">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daycare</a>
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I hadn't looked at this proposal, having assumed it addressed
day-care for the elderly, handicapped, or other adults. <br>
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I'm not aware of anyone using the term regularly this way in British
English. Before reaching school age the places kids go to tend to be
one of the following Nursery, Pre-school, a child-minder. To my mind
these are pretty much covered by the amenity=kindergarten tag. I
would not think there is any mileage in OSM trying to identify
childminders. Once kids reach school, facilities where they stay
before being picked-up by their parents will (Imaginatively) be
called after-school.<br>
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The OSM convention is to use British, <b>not</b> American, English.
You should therefore change this proposal to child_care (as
described in the wiki page in your link). Particularly as the latter
is much less ambiguous (the main reason why some American English
terms have been used in tags e.g. sidewalk/pavement).<br>
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I do think that day_care covering facilities for adults under a
variety of categories (elderly, learning difficulties, health) would
be useful, but this seems to warrant a different tag. I can
immediately think of several places locally which I haven't added to
OSM for want of a tag.<br>
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Jerry<br>
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