[Tagging] club=scout for similar organisations

s8evq s8evq at runbox.com
Sat Feb 2 08:21:12 UTC 2019


On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 08:12:28 +1000, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 13:57, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 31/01/19 13:02, John Willis via Tagging wrote:
> > club=youth
> > youth=*
> >
> 
> Slightly different, but also related ...
> 
> Both my sons went through the Australian Air Force Cadets
> http://www.aafc.org.au/
> 
> It was emphasised that "The Australian Air Force Cadets (AAFC) is a youth
> oriented organisation that is administered and actively supported by the
> Royal Australian Air Force.", but they are NOT military in any way, with
> the same applying to both Army & Navy Cadets.
> 
> Once upon a time, Cadets was a way of starting early training for those
> kids who were interested in a military career but that was stopped in the
> 1980s - 90s, as the Government of the day apparently didn't want to be seen
> to be turning children into war-mongers & trained killers!
> 
> I don't know, but would assume that the same thing would apply for similar
> groups in other countries?
> 
> So they would also come under the heading of
> club=youth
> youth=*
> 


Thank you for your input. I'm glad there are other examples of youth organisation that are clearly different from Scouts.

Could we agree that club=youth does have a meaningful usage, despite what the wiki currently states? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:club




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