[Tagging] amenity=veterinary: size and animals

Philip Barnes phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Fri Sep 14 10:43:38 BST 2012


On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 11:22 +0200, Martin Vonwald wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The tag amenity=veterinary is used for veterinaries. But there exists
> not (documented) possibility to tag the size of the facility or what
> animals are treated. Taginfo shows that a very limited time the size
> was tagged with veterinary=hospital. I would suggest the following:
> * veterinary=doctor/clinic/hospital
> * veterinary:for=<animal>;<animal> or alternatively
> veterinary:for:<animal>=yes/no
> 
> An alternative to veterinary=<size> would be veterinary:size=<size>.
> 
> What do you think?

Doctor should not be used, that implies treatment of humans. A person
qualified to treat animals is a Vet, or Veterinary Surgeon. 

Phil




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