[Imports] Mali Schools

[Pieren]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
> 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.

In France, we have ~24.000 "school:FR" tags in use. But this is a
secondary tag, not remplacing the "amenity=school" and provides the
French details about schools (see [1]). We went to this solution
because school systems are too different between countries.

Pieren

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:school:FR#Type_d.27.C3.A9cole