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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>I don’t think stable is a good tagging for all animal shelters, as you and other people say, stable is for horses.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>In addition the proposal was to add a tag stable to a building or a part of it. But a kennel for example is a wider area that includes buildings, courtyards and meadows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>We can add a tag amenity=kennel (or any more general if we can find it) to the whole area and then within it you can add building=yes, landuse=grass and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>I think that the key amenity should be used, and do not introduce a new key.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>About the more general tagging, what do you think about amenity=animal_shelter with dog=yes or cat=yes or wild_animals=yes and so on?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>In this case a tag for each animal species accepted should be added, because in the same structure you can host dogs and cats or different wild animal species. So for example you cannot set at the same time stable=dog and stable=cat.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>In this way we could use amenity=animal_shelter also for animal recovery centers held by WWF or any other associations. You can also add a tag operator=*.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Last but not least, why don’t we move to the Discussion Page, so anyone can see this discussion, not only people subscribed to this mailing list?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Any suggestion from native speakers is welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Alberto <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:00:19 +0200<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>From: Martin Vonwald <imagic.osm@gmail.com><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> <tagging@openstreetmap.org><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Subject: Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (amenity=kennel)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Message-ID:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> <CAKjckyON+J+8OezocrSBtv-0ytkszumPU30gmz7fucWghQN_Fg@mail.gmail.com><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>2012/9/13 <</span><a href="mailto:teuxe@free.fr"><span lang=EN-US>teuxe@free.fr</span></a><span lang=EN-US>>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>> Thank you for your proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>> Couldn't we have some more general tagging for this purpose? Such facilities can generally keep other kinds of animals (like "SPA", "Soci?t? Protectrice des Animaux" in France) so why having a specific tag for dogs?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Actually I just revived an old proposal for stables [1]. My first thought was to simply use stables=<animal> until someone with much better english language skills pointed out that stables usually only refer to horses. I would also like to see one common tag for "some place where animals are kept and taken care of". Any suggestions from native speakers?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Martin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>[1] </span><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Stable"><span lang=EN-US>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Stable</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>