[Tagging] Test prep centres and cram schools as amenity=prep_school?

石野貴之 yumean1119 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 5 08:53:29 UTC 2019


Hello.

Tagging schemes for cram schools and tutorial centers have been discussed
very often,
but none of the discussion got to the solid conclusion.

I am strongly concerned about the situation, and requested for comments on
my diary.
ML: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-May/045457.html
English: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/yumean1119/diary/364867
Japanese: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/yumean1119/diary/364501

My proposal is the following:
1. Use a well-documented tag for the main tag. I think
office=educational_institution would be the best, but amenity=prep_school
or another tagging is also OK.
2. Then, add education=cram_school or education=tutoring as an auxiliary tag.

When I posted my idea on the discussion page at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Features/Education_Reform_Alternative
There was a comment by Warin61:

--cited from
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_Features/Education_Reform_Alternative
--
Because it would be confusing to have educational features under 2 keys
particularly when one of them is named *educational*. Think about teaching
a new mapper, a clear logical order is far easier to learn than one where
some bits are other there while others are in yet another area. Warin61
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Warin61> (talk
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Warin61>) 08:54, 9 June 2019
(UTC)
--end--

Yeah, I must admit that having two keys in one feature is cofusing.
However, throwing away current tags like amenity=school and promoting to
use education=* tags is much worse. This obviously breaks forward
compatibility. That's why I want to use education=* as a sub tag, not as a
main tag.

I think it's the chance of a lifetime to deepen the discussion about
tagging educational features, because today is the very day someone
chaneged the status at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Features/Education_Reform_Alternative
to abandoned and the original auther Erkinalp reverted the status back to
proposed. This shows he/she has not lost the motivation!

Takayuki Ishino (User: yumean1119)
yumean1119 at gmail.com
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