[Diversity-talk] Who Maps The World

[Nick Doty]

On Mar 19, 2018, at 3:18 PM, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
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> Baby hatch sounds a horrible tag, sounds mechanical uncaring and impersonal. I assume it means a maternity ward?

As described in the tag documentation, a "baby hatch" is not a maternity ward, but a very specific service, and often a service that is separate from hospital or other health care services (although sometimes it's also included in hospitals). The "hatch" term apparently comes from the privacy that is inherent in such a system, where a parent may not want to be identified when giving up a child.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_hatch <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_hatch>

These are important things to map as standalone items on OSM, I think. It doesn't look like the tag is frequently used at this point, and I don't know if there are other sources to find these particular venues. But they do exist, under different names in different countries and cultures.

—Nick
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