[Tagging] Nursing homes

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2018-03-23 0:27 GMT+01:00 Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk>:

> On Thu, 2018-03-22 at 19:19 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > In the US, nursing home is basically for people who need skilled
> > nursing, which means one or more of
> >   unable to self-transfer
> >
> >   need an nurse to administer medications (anything beyond someone
> >   putting pills in front of you)
> >
> >   cognitively impaired
> >
> > so while there are people with walkers, the notion that nursing home
> > and
> > disability are very related is really how it is.
>
> Nursing home means exactly the same in the UK.
>



the same concept exists in Germany as well (Pflegeheim).

Regarding the alternative tagging with amenity=social_facility and
social_facility=nursing_home and social_facility:for=*
I don't think it is fortunate to retag amenity=nursing_home to
amenity=social_facility in order to make it less clear and to require more
tags to make any sense of it besides "something somehow related to the
concept social".

amenity=social_facility is so generic, I propose to discourage its use,
because by using the same "amenity" key as some of its "competitors", it
leads to tag fragmentation. We would continue to use the keys
social_facility=* and social_facility:for=*
and if someone really is not interested in the difference between the
subclasses but wants the "social" items anyway, they could simply take any
value with these keys.

Cheers,
Martin
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