[Imports] Mali Schools

[Severin Menard]

Hi Renaud,

Really great to see this data being added in OSM, a great input to help the
reconstruction after the difficult past years for the country. My comments
below.


Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 23:54:02 -0700
> From: Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com>
> To: renaud gaudin <rgaudin at gmail.com>, imports at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Imports] Mali Schools
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> On 9/3/2014 12:21 PM, renaud gaudin wrote:
> >
> >     - academie isn't British English.
> >
> >
> > Yes, neither is CAP (Centre d'Animation Pédagogique) but both
> > represents the Educational hierarchy used to "locate" a school in
> > Mali. What should I do ? Use a country prefix ? Something else ?
>
> OSM tags are supposed to be in British English. Furthermore, you
> shouldn't be using a tagging system that's specific to a country. I
> don't know school tagging well enough to suggest an alternative. You may
> even find that it's not something mappers generally care about or tag
> and you shouldn't include.
>

As schools levels are usually specific to a country, and would not mean
anything or even misinterpretation (eg with college) they are actually
adapted to the local context. Generally the only common, international one
is amenity=school. For further details, see eg the ones made in France:
here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:Tag:amenity%3Dschool (and its
stats http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/school%3AFR)

what can be adapted to Mali (school:ml=*) whose academic system is strongly
related to the French one. For CAP and other specialisation, a third level
tag is advised. For whoever interested by a school layer, these categories
are really meaningful and important to include.

Would be great to change the upper case as suggested by Rafael, it is easy
to do with LibreOffice Calc text functions.

It is also easy to switch a wikipage to another place from the upper banner
buttons; I think creating a import sub page for the Mali page would make
sense, and this import would be a subpage of the Mali>imports page.

Thanks again to make this import happen!

Sincerely,

Severin
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