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

[Andrew Harvey]

On Thu, 9 Sept 2021 at 20:05, nathan case <nathancase at outlook.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
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> A specific question but one that may actually be a much broader one.
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> 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.
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If the grounds are wholly part of the doctor or dentist clinic, then the
amenity way should be one the grounds not on the building. Tagging only on
the building is wrong.

 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).
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Yes, this is the correct way to map.


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> 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?
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Yes, amenity is for the facility, not the building, that is where the
building=* tag comes in. If the facility extent is limited to the building
only (ie. there are no grounds) then it makes sense to map the amenity=*
tag on the building=* way, but if there are grounds then they should be
different ways with building=* inside the amenity=* way.
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