[Tagging] insurance health

[António Madeira]

I agree that a logical breakdown of the insurance field should be
preferred rather than creating several type of insurance offices.
I would rather use office=insurance + insurance="type" than
office=health_insurance;car_insurance;house_insurance;etc.


Às 21:16 de 14/04/2020, Greg Troxel escreveu:
> Agustin Rissoli <aguztinqui at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In Argentina we want to correctly tagging offices of companies dedicated to
>> what we call prepaid medicine, by paying a monthly fee you access a series
>> of medical benefits.
>> We are hesitating between these tags:
>>
>> office=health_insurance
>> It has no wiki, it has 185 uses, the majority in Belgium since it was
>> created in 2013, they even have a preset in JOSM.
>>
>> office=insurance + insurance=health
>> It has a wiki, curiously created by a Belgian user in 2018, it has 66 uses.
>> It is the only documented insurance=* key.
> While I see Joseph's point about what is normal, I think that's an
> artifact of some, perhaps many societies.
>
> I think if this is an office selling insurance of any kind, it should
> have office=insurance and then a subtag.  I don't think it helps map
> data users to make a second top-level tag.  Basically I think tags
> should follow semantics as much as possible, when that's reasonable.
>
> For what it's worth, around me, also in the US, my impression is that
> most "insurance offices" are really "property and casualty insurance
> offices".  This is for your car, and your house.  But typically not life
> insurance so much, and not health.  (I am not sure about professional
> liability and business interruption insurance.)
>
> As always, we should step back and ask "when we add these tags, who will
> use them, and why".  I see two points:
>
>    some kind of overall statistics of types of businesses
>
>    wanting to find a particular thing
>
> In the case of office=insurance insurance=health, if that's what you
> want, you can find it by searching for that just as well as searching
> for office=health_insurance.
>
> But if you  want to  ask "how many insurance offices are there and what
> is the breakdown by type", it's much more natural to search one key and
> switch on subtag, then to consult some information -- which we don't
> really have a way to maintain -- that says office=insurance,
> office=health_insurance and office=foo_insurance are all types of
> insurance offices.
>
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