[Tagging] Things within things | Re: Request for assistance in creating a tag.

[Paul Allen]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 12:30, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ok, I do agree that "healthcare=department" or perhaps
> "healthcare=hospital_department" would make sense for an inpatient
> department within a larger hospital, since that is certainly not an
> amenity=clinic (which are outpatient facilities).
>

Some may be both for inpatients and outpatients.  Like X-ray.  If you insist
on a separate value for use when the facility is within a hospital and may
be
used by inpatients, then I suspect carto people are going to say "no
synonyms."

What is needed, though, is a tag for hospital wards.  By "wards" I mean how
the term is used in British English and not as stated by
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital#Departments_or_wards
In British English a ward is a collection of beds for inpatients.  Some
specialized wards may be clinics/departments as well as collections
of beds, but most are effectively dormitories.  My nearest general hospital
has 20 wards scattered around a large complex and it would be nice
for people visiting patients to be able to see where they are on a map.

-- 
Paul
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