[Tagging] amenity=kennel to amenity=animal_shelter

Alberto albertoferraris at fastwebnet.it
Fri Sep 14 12:48:47 BST 2012


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>I also think that "amenity=animal_shelter" with other tags to indicate
kinds of animals goes in the sense of OSM tagging. Things like
"animal=shelter" are nonsense: a shelter is not >an animal, whereas an
animal_shelter is an amenity.

>To set a general rule of thumb, for those tags that are not boolean
properties (yes/no), the value ("animal_shelter") shall be an item from the
set represented by the key >("amenity").

>To remove ambiguities related to short tags like "horse=yes", why not using
another set of specific tags indicating whether a kind of animal is accepted
in the shelter, like >"animal_shelter:dog=yes", "animal_shelter:cat=yes",
"animal_shelter:horse=yes" and so on, maybe refining the attribute "yes" by
something more useful?

>Teuxe

+1.
I'll put these tags in a proposal "amenity=animal_shelter".

What do you think about refine it in "animal_shelter:dog:stray=yes/no",
"animal_shelter:dog:boarding=yes/no" and so on for other species?
If you know a kennel is for stray and boarding you should tag with
"amenity=animal_shelter", "animal_shelter:dog:stray=yes " and
"animal_shelter:dog:boarding=yes ".
If you don't know the purpose of a kennel you just tag it with
"amenity=animal_shelter" and "animal_shelter:dog=yes".
If you don't know neither the species kept in a shelter, you just tag it
with "amenity=animal_shelter".
Is it too complicated?

Or maybe it would be better for a stray and boarding kennel to tag it with
"amenity=animal_shelter" and "animal_shelter:dog=stray;boarding "?
Which solution would be correctly interpreted by route planning software?

Alberto





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