[Tagging] "Pet Relief Areas"

[Marc Gemis]

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> The function is akin to car parking and bicycle parking. Sticking with
> that theme, we'd get dog parking and horse parking. A sign labelled 'dog
> park' tagged as dog parking has obvious links but the to tag a dog park
> sign with 'hitching rail' breaks the similarity - a similarity that would
> be language-independent on the basis that the 'park' part appears in both.
> It might be appropriate to go for:
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> amenity=animal_parking
> dog_parking=yes
> horse_parking=no
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> so that animal parking that accepts different sized animals can be tagged
> at one node with the use of subtags.
>
> <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging>
>

<sarcasm>
so I can retag a veterinary with amenity=doctors, pet=yes, human=no ?  an
off-leash area for dogs with leisure=playground, dog=yes, child=no ? The
serve the same purpose, not ?
</sarcasm>

Generalization is fine (sometimes), but this proposal is over the top IMHO.

regards

m
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