[Tagging] Areas around doctors/dentists - or any other amenity

[Warin]

On 9/9/21 7:58 pm, nathan case wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> A specific question but one that may actually be a much broader one.
>
> How should I tag the area (e.g. grounds) surrounding a doctor’s 
> surgery or dentist? Both wiki pages explicitly state that 
> amenity=doctors/dentist should be drawn around the perimeter of the 
> building.
>
> I have seen some mappers apply the amenity=* tag to the whole area of 
> the amenity, i.e., encompassing both buildings and grounds. 
> amenity=fuel is one that springs to mind that is explicitly tagged 
> like this but I have also seen things like amenity=pub mapped this way 
> also (i.e. the pub building, car park and beer garden are all 
> enveloped inside one large amenity=pub area).
>
> Do the grounds of a doctor’s surgery/dentist count as part of the 
> amenity? If so, does this apply to most (if not all) amenities? Or, if 
> not, would a landuse=healthcare tag perhaps be useful?
>

Take a look at amenity=fire_station. Here the area that is used for the 
fire station can be mapped - including parking, landscaping, etc.

I think the same should apply to any amenity where the area is just for 
that amenity e.g. a doctors place where the parking is for 
customers/staff, the landscaping is part of the property. Where the 
amenity shares the premises then I'd simply map a node as the amount of 
time to determine the area is not worth it to me.

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