[Tagging] Spelling of healthcare:speciality=maxillofacial_surgery

[Joseph Eisenberg]

The normal spelling in American English is "maxillofacial", and that
appears to be correct in British English as well:

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/maxillofacial

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/maxillofacial

I believe the speciality is normally referred to as "maxillofacial surgery"
- however "oral surgery" is perhaps more commonly known:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/oral-surgery?q=maxillofacial+surgery

As mentioned before, you can call it "oral and maxillofacial surgery" if
you want to be long-winded, but that seems unnecessary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_and_maxillofacial_surgery#United_Kingdom_and_Europe

-- Joseph Eisenberg

On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 10:08 AM Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at gmx.at> wrote:
>
> 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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