[Tagging] Clinic that does admit inpatients

Raphael dafadllyn at gmail.com
Mon Oct 25 19:25:15 UTC 2021


On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 at 11:20, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
<tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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> Is amenity=hospital_ward maybe better?

Isn't a ward a part of a hospital with beds for the inpatients? What
we are looking for is a part of a hospital with one speciality - in
larger hospitals a department has its own wards and examination rooms
(often even a separate building) whereas smaller hospitals may have
mixed-speciality wards or examination rooms.


On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 at 11:20, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
<tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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> Oct 25, 2021, 06:38 by osm.tagging at thorsten.engler.id.au:
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> How about generalizing the "building:part" pattern to a general ":part"
> suffix that can apply to any main tag?
>
> amenity:part=hospital
> healthcare:part=hospital
>
> both seem weird
>
> hospital:part=yes?
> But that would cover also for example power substation, gas storage etc
> So it would be nicer to have something specifically for wards/departments.
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> From: Raphael <dafadllyn at gmail.com>
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> It would be very helpful to have a tagging scheme for departments of a
> hospital (in order to prevent them to be mistagged as amenity=hospital
> inside amenity=hospital, amenity=clinic or building=" + name=*). What about
> amenity=hospital_department together with healthcare:speciality=*?
>
> I like it.
>
> Is amenity=hospital_ward maybe better?
>
> There is some minimal use of healthcare=emergency_ward (33 worldwide)
> for part of hospital dedicated for walk-in emergency (used in Poland,
> this thread is side effect of discussing tagging for such feature)
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/healthcare=emergency_ward#overview
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