[Tagging] Spelling of healthcare:speciality=maxillofacial_surgery

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at gmx.at
Sat Dec 26 18:06:21 UTC 2020


Hello list,

this is my first post here but I am a long-time OSM contributor. I'd
have added something like below to the respective wiki discussion page
but from my experience that is rather futile due to low number of
interactions there.

dental_oral_maxillo_facial_surgery is defined as a value for
healthcare:speciality. However, probably for some good reason (I am not
entirely sure of that though ;), there is also a "maxillofacial_surgery"
speciality. I think the latter should probably be better named
"maxillo_facial_surgery" (NB: the additional '_') to match the other
value. Both are not super-often used currently and changing them now
globally and especially in the wiki would prevent yet another
peculiarity in OSM schemes that drives us all mad. :)

Taginfo usage stats containing maxillo more than twice:

dental_oral_maxillo_facial_surgery  154  0.24%
maxillofacial_surgery  35  0.05%
dental_oral_maxillo_facial_surgery;plastic_surgery  3  0.00%

If you agree that changing it makes sense, what's the best/correct way
to do that? Due to the very low numbers (and probably support in
external applications) I would presume that there is no problem if I
would simply edit the respective wiki pages (including translations) and
change the data globally via some overpass API tricks?

-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner



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