<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:07 PM, alyssa wright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alyssapwright@gmail.com" target="_blank">alyssapwright@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><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">Again, thanks for all the discussion. I'm following most of it. ;) I think...<br>
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Could I attempt to articulate what I consider the major confusion in the existing kindergarten tag? Perhaps this is already known, but perhaps an explanation could inspire a graceful resolution.<br>
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In the US, (and according to the Oxford dictionary Australia and Britain), kindergarten is legally defined for 5 and 6 year olds. There are cases where parents have attempted to enroll a child of below 5 into kindergarten and have been legally refused. Instead there are a number of facilities that accommodate children below the age of 5.<br>
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It is my understanding that kindergarten means something very different in other places of the world. How does OSM account for such cultural differences? Perhaps the childcare proposal should not try to replace kindergarten, but instead try to disassociate childcare from the kindergarten umbrella?<br>
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But I am not sure I know enough about tags to propose something appropriate.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think the clearest is to use "amenity=childcare", and document that the age range taken should be tagged (either with an "age-range=a..b" or with "age_start=a" and "age_end=b"), and document that "amenity=kindergarten" should be processed as an alias for this. (I don't *regard* it as an alias, but I'm happy to *process* it as one. particularly when the age range is made explicit separately.) This avoids using different words for age ranges, that might be interpreted differently in different places / cultures; and also avoids multiple-valued tags for facilities which cover what someone regards as several named age ranges.<br>
<br></div><div>Apart from that, I'd generally go along with the proposals in <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/childcare2.0">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/childcare2.0</a>, particularly "pedagogy=" as I'm sure adherents of a particular system (e.g. Montessori) will be looking for that information.<br>
<br></div><div>__John<br><br></div></div></div></div>