[Tagging] Request for assistance in creating a tag.

[Warin]

On 13/4/20 8:25 pm, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
>> ... Currently, what we are tagging is the
>> hospital. So for example, Manila Hospital (tagged as a hospital) we add the
>> tags like disease:hiv=yes. say that it is a treatment facility and it
>> dispenses hiv medicine. But what i am having difficulty is that hiv
>> facility is treated like a department. You can put in the email address and
>> contact details of the hospital but if I add the contact details of the Hiv
>> facility it then gets mixed with the hospital details.
> Right, that doesn't work. If the HIV clinic or department has
> different details, such as a different name, opening_hours, website,
> etc, then it will need to be mapped as a separate feature, such as an
> amenity=clinic node inside of the amenity=hospital area.

amenity=clinic in OSM is defined in such a way as not to be useful in this way.

>
> It's common for a big hospital or "medical center" to have many
> clinics on the same property or even in the same building. My
> residency clinic was in a building inside of Long Beach Medical
> Center, which also contained a children's hospital, a nursing home,
> labs, radiology, and a number of outpatient clinics in a series of
> connected buildings.
>
> Here in Indonesia, a public hospital will have an emergency
> department, a surgical building, several buildings for inpatients, a
> couple of outpatient clinics, pharmacy, laboratory, radiology, etc.
>
> If you need to add different details for these sorts of features, then
> map each as it's own node (or an area, for example if it has a
> separate wing or whole building), and tag with amenity= or healthcare=
> as appropriate.

I'd go with healthcare. And I'd use department as that is similarly used with universities.

>> For hiv care - yes it is a bit of all a combination. I can't tagged it as a
>> pharmacy as it only releases specific anti-retroviral drugs.
> Any facility which dispenses prescription medication is a pharmacy, in
> British and American understanding. Most countries regulate these like
> a bigger pharmacy.
>
>> Currently We are using this tagging system as assisted by the local OSM
>> community in the Philippines.
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HIV_Facilities_Tagging_(MapBeks)
> That's a rather complicated system. A hospital which offers HIV
> treatment is supposed to get all of these tags:
>
> "amenity=hospital"
> ...
> "disease:hiv=yes
> "health_service:test=yes
> "health_facility:dispensary=yes
> "health_service:counselling=yes
> "counselling_type:sexual=yes
> "medical_service:antiretroviral_therapy=yes
> "medical_service:outpatient=yes
> "description=DOH HIV Treatment Hub"
>
> This seems overly complicated.
>
> A few tags seem unnecessary or unclear:
>
> "medical_service:outpatient=yes" - almost all hospitals offer
> outpatient services.
>
> "health_service:test=yes" - this is quite vague. It would be better to
> use healthcare=laborator (as a node at the actual location of the
> laboratory) or "hiv_test=yes" if only rapid HIV testing is offered
> rather than a complete laboratory.
>
> "health_facility:dispensary=yes" - if there is a pharmacy or a
> dispensary, it would be better to tag this as "amenity=pharmacy" at
> the actual location. I suppose if there is no pharmacist and it's just
> a doctor's office or nurses who give out medications, then a shorter
> tag like "dispensing=yes" would be proper to add to the clinic or
> office. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:dispensing
>
> "description=DOH HIV Treatment Hub" - it would be better to add this
> as a tag, like "hiv_treatment_hub=yes" rather than use description
>
> (I also would not add healthcare=clinic or healthcare=hospital - just
> use amenity=hospital or amenity=clinic, no need to add a second tag
> with the same meaning.)
>
> -- Joseph Eisenberg
>
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