[Tagging] Research laboratory

Yves yvecai at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 11:18:49 UTC 2014


A laboratory can take a lot of forms: a building, a farm field, a desert ...
So definitely defining a primary tag with laboratory=primary speciality is a good idea imo.
Yves

On 5 août 2014 12:39:10 UTC+02:00, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>2014-08-05 12:06 GMT+02:00 Pierre-Alain Dorange <pdorange at mac.com>:
>
>> amenity=laboratory (66)
>>
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>
>I think this would be a generic tag for a single laboratory. (generic,
>because a laboratory will be very different according to what you are
>doing
>there, e.g. developping photos, medical research, medical analysis,
>developing motors, research on radio waves, ...). Even something like
>"chemistry_laboratory" will still be quite generic with respect to the
>different kind of actual chemical laboratories that there are in the
>world.
>
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>
>> building=laboratory (10)
>>
>
>
>fine for a lab building, not sufficient (IMHO) for the lab itself
>(function, user)
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>
>> office=laboratory , but it was pure R&D (not industrial ones)
>>
>
>
>doesn't make sense to me. Something is typically either a lab or an
>office
>(different specs / requirements)
>
>
>
>> health_facility:type=laboratory (138) : but only for medical research
>>
>
>
>I am not sure I'd use this for research, but I'd probably use it for
>"service" labs (i.e. a lab that does blood analysis or other kind of
>medical analysis)
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>
>research_institution=yes (2008 proposal)
>>
>
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>this will fit on the institution, e.g. Fraunhofer, Max-Planck, CNR in
>Italy, etc.
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>> laboratory=*
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>
>sounds like a tag to refine the type of lab
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>>
>> For big/industrial research lab i would use
>>         "industrial=laboratory" + "laboratory=nuclear"
>>         inside a "landuse=industrial"
>>
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>in the case of nuclear I'd like agree, while not everyone conducting
>research for an industrial user, or owned by an industrial company will
>himself be considered industrial (IMHO). Maybe this something we should
>clarify / reach for consensus: what is "industrial" meaning ? In
>building
>law, industrial usage is typically opposed to research or
>administration
>usage, because you'd expect the latter to create less pollution,
>(noise,
>smell etc.) and they are therefor more compatible with residential
>requirements.
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>> For small ones (not industrial) :
>>         "building=laboratory" + "laboratory=nuclear"
>>
>
>
>what is your definition of an "industrial laboratory" and which other
>types
>would you like to be there? FWIW, I'd interpret this tag combination as
>a
>lab building for nuclear research or analysis, but I wouldn't
>necessarily
>expect a nuclear lab working inside (could also be a disused lab).
>
>
>I have found these (in small) use tags in the amenity namespace (which
>I
>would likely expect this to be in):
>17
>*amenity* <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/amenity>
>*research*_institution
><http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=research_institution>
>16
>*amenity* <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/amenity>
>*research* <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=research>
>11
>*amenity* <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/amenity>
>*research*_institute
><http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=research_institute>
>6
>*amenity* <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/amenity>
>*research*_centre
><http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=research_centre>
>6
>*amenity* <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/amenity>
>*research*_station
><http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=research_station>
>3
>*amenity* <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/amenity>
>*research*_center
><http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=research_center>
>3
>old_*amenity* <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/old_amenity>
>*research*_institution
><http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/old_amenity=research_institution>
>1
>*amenity* <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/amenity>
>*Research* Institute
><http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=Research%20Institute>
>
>
>cheers,
>Martin
>
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