[diversity-talk] Childcare tagging

[Kai Krueger]

On 06/20/2013 09:30 PM, Elliott Plack wrote:
> I remember Alyssa's talk and how the childcare / baby hatch / 
> kindergarden thing was panned by the community. Well, there is an 
> active "Childcare 2.0" proposal going on right now, and folks on the 
> OSM Tagging list are discussing it at present. Here is a link to the 
> archived thread. 
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2013-June/013833.html
>
> Sign up and post some comments before it goes to voting, so that 
> history doesn't repeat itself.
I would just like to remind people that voting on tagging proposals has 
little relevance in OpenStreetMap and is seen as a relatively 
controversial aspect within the project.

(Usually) Everyone can use any tag they like to describe anything they 
care about. There is no need for a formal approval and you can just 
start using the tags straight away. OSM allows for any "special interest 
group" to come in and map their needs and interests. Be it baby hatches 
and child care, or be it the diameter and pressure of fire hydrants for 
use in the fire services.

So don't let your self be discouraged, even if this or other proposals 
do get "rejected" by a couple of people on the wiki!

That said, obviously there is an advantage to coordinate tagging and 
discussing things on the tagging list or the wiki beforehand, as if e.g. 
person A uses baby_hatch, person B uses baby_hatches, person C uses 
baby_klappe and so on, then even if the data is available in the 
database, it becomes rather difficult to use.

Usually the best way to then promote a tagging schema, once you have a 
good and workable proposal, is to a) try and get it as presets into the 
editors and b) get it visualized on the map.

The iD editor has a very nice search based tagging preset system. As 
they are therefore not limited by screen real estate, my guess would be 
they have a rather lenient policy on inclusion and it should be 
relatively easy to get those tags included.

JOSM has the ability to define preset files which allows people to 
relatively easily add presets for their interests. E.g. like the preset 
file for playground equipment ( 
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Presets/Playground_Equipment )

Getting things included on the map is a little more tricky. For the main 
map on osm.org, the style has been pretty much unmaintained for the last 
year and so no changes have been made at all recently. However, you can 
always just render your own map. E.g. a "map for child infrastructure" / 
"map for parents".

Kai


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