[Tagging] Health and other stories

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2012/1/10 sabas88 <sabas88 at gmail.com>:
> For instance the discussion could start with a simple case: healthcare.
> Now the health facilities are tagged in amenity (when I go to the dentist
> I'm not happy as I would be in a bar!), but (in my dream world :) ) they
> should deserve a seperate key: I found two proposals, one contested [1] and
> one in RFC status [2] (but I somewhat dislike it at a first glance).


nobody stops you from using other keys then "amenity", some people
already do it, look here:

http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/healthcare#values
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/health_facility%3Atype#values
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/healthcare%3Aspeciality#values

Cheers,
Martin