[Tagging] club=scout for similar organisations

[Andy Townsend]

On 02/02/2019 14:11, Paul Allen wrote:
>
> My guess is because OSM was started by somebody in the UK; OSM is 
> (supposedly) based upon
> British English usage; the UK has scouts but not Chiro or KSA.  OSM 
> has scouts because back
> in the early days we wanted to map scouts but had no need to map Chiro.
>
Even in the UK there are scouts and there are scouts - the nearest scout 
building to me used to be associated with 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Powell_Scouts'_Association rather 
than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scout_Association . There are 
lots of other "scout-like organisations" such as 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodcraft_Folk .

There are no hard and fast values in OSM; just pick something 
appropriate to best fit in with existing OSM tags where possible and 
other local mappers.  It's possible to go back and change these if it 
appears that most people map them as something else (I can think of a 
few examples where I was mapping things as X but for whatever reason Y 
became more popular; it's easy to switch to Y).

Best Regards,

Andy


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