[Tagging] Tagging Digest, Vol 36, Issue 20, 9

[St Niklaas]

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> Subject: Tagging Digest, Vol 36, Issue 20
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> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:13:53 +0100
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> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:13:39 +0900
> From: Andrew Errington <erringtona at gmail.com>
> To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools"
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> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (amenity=kennel)
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> On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:00:19 Martin Vonwald wrote:
> > 2012/9/13  <teuxe at free.fr>:
> > > Thank you for your proposal.
> > > Couldn't we have some more general tagging for this purpose? Such
> > > facilities can generally keep other kinds of animals (like "SPA",
> > > "Soci?t? Protectrice des Animaux" in France) so why having a specific tag
> > > for dogs?
> >
> > Actually I just revived an old proposal for stables [1]. My first
> > thought was to simply use stables=<animal> until someone with much
> > better english language skills pointed out that stables usually only
> > refer to horses. I would also like to see one common tag for "some
> > place where animals are kept and taken care of". Any suggestions from
> > native speakers?
> 
> I'm not sure if a common tag would be ideal.
> 
> Off the top of my head we have 'stables', 'kennels' and 'cattery'.  Each name 
> is very specific.  Also, they are not limited to welfare (lost, abandoned or 
> abused animals), there are commercial businesses which look after animals 
> while their owners go on vacation.  Since they generally look after the same 
> kind of animal (not mixed), this should be indicated by the tag, i.e. 
> amenity=kennels, amenity=stables, amenity=cattery
> 
> For the welfare situation I suppose we could have amenity=animal_shelter, or 
> animal_sanctuary.  These generally do have a mix of animals, but of course 
> dogs and cats are most common.  There are also specialist shelters for birds, 
> seals, otters etc., but probably "animal_shelter" would cover those too.
> 
> Just my thoughts on the matter.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Andre
>Hi Andrew & Co,What about Asylum, for all animals and a tag for the spieces, cats, dags, horses or guinea pigs ?As follows, Building - asylum, (latin for pension) that would not give much confusion.horses - yesYou dont have to tag if the animal was found or just placed out of its home for a holiday ? With fee - yes, value - weekGreetz Hendrik 		 	   		  
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