<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 at 10:47, cleary <<a href="mailto:osm@97k.com">osm@97k.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Can be difficult to get right.<br>
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It is useful to have a tag to indicate if government/Medicare-funded services are available or if one requires private health insurance or a credit card to get treatment. I am not familiar with an appropriate OSM tag and it is also difficult as various terms such as "public" and "medicare" have different meanings in different countries. Perhaps something like public_funded=yes/no/partial <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The operator:type tag wouldn't say if you can rock up and get free health care, because you can have a privately operated "public" hospital (I think Northern Beaches Hospital is an example). So if you're looking to know where you can go for government covered healthcare then operator:type might not always be the tag to indicate that.</div><div><br></div><div>We might well decide that it's not suitable to try and map that level of detail in OSM.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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The operator:type=* tag does no harm but this can usually be inferred from the name of the operator e.g operator=Healthscope, operator=St John of God Health Care, operator=Mid North Coast Local Health District etc.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah it's usually fairly clear, which makes it easy to add, but makes it much easier for a machine to understand than the operator string alone.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Public/private/religious etc can be muddled: St Vincent's Hospital in Darlinghurst in Sydney is partly a public hospital and partly private and all operated by a religious organisation. It is separated into "St Vincent's Hospital" and "St Vincent's Private Hospital" with separate reception and accommodation areas but some services are shared by both the public and private. Hawkesbury District Health Service at Windsor NSW also has mixture of public/private patients and receives a lot of government funding and is operated by a religious organisation. It has only the one name and only one main entrance.<br>
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Irrespective of the operator and operator:type tags, I think users would be assisted most by a tag that clearly indicates the funding source/s, particularly whether the facility offers access to government-funded services.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, agreed it can be muddled, maybe then a semicolon separated list of values would be the best we can do. </div></div></div>