[Tagging] amenity=hospital on things that are not hospitals - is it a good idea?

[Andy Townsend]

On 28/10/2019 10:11, marc marc wrote:
> Le 28.10.19 à 09:44, Mateusz Konieczny a écrit :
>> "sign having a hospital icon and no name can simply be tagged
>> type=destination_sign + amenity=hospital"
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:destination_sign
> Yes it's horrible
>
> the next line said destination:symbol=hospital
> it's better.

There are only 12 in the database (Germany / Italy / Denmark):

https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Nuz

so removing the offending line from the wiki and changing the data 
shouldn't be too difficult to do manually.  There are 69 if you include 
other amenities such as "school".

Best Regards,