[Tagging] [OpenStreetMap] Re: social facility

[Sam Vekemans]

... i should have said 'adding helper tags to further define a map
feature'  instead of 'tag redirects' :) oops.

On 9/8/10, Sean Horgan <seanhorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you talking about this:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sheltered_Housing?
>
> Also, on the amenity wiki under Entertainment, Arts & Culture there is a
> link to a social_centre:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:amenity%3Dsocial_centre&action=edit&redlink=1
>
> It is described as "A place for free and not-for-profit activities." but it
> is not defined at all.
>
> Are you recommending that we use "social" instead of either "social_centre"
> or "social_facility".  I lean towards "facility" myself as just "social" or
> "social_centre" sounds more recreational.
>
> In general I like the idea of redirecting amenity:homeless_shelter to a more
> generic tag.  How does this impact retrieval via an API?
>
> --
> Sean
>
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:58, Sam Vekemans
> <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> hi,
>> I have 'amenity=sheltered_housing'
>> which can be translated to
>> amenity=social
>> social=sheltered_housing
>>
>>
>> then setup a re-direct of amenity=homeless_shelter to the above 2 tags
>> as a pop-up 'did you mean ....?'
>>
>>
>> this way, its generic enough that other features can be put into
>> 'social', and can still be understood.
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> sam
>>
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