[Tagging] RFC: school:for (to map special education and other ambiguous cases)

Jez Nicholson jez.nicholson at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 08:08:40 UTC 2022


General question on the proposal: what tagging is currently used? There
must at least be instances of schools for the blind, or for the deaf
already on OSM.

On Thu, 16 Jun 2022, 22:00 Martin Koppenhoefer, <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Am Do., 16. Juni 2022 um 21:11 Uhr schrieb Pieter Vander Vennet <
> pietervdvn at posteo.net>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In another step to make school tagging broadly usable, I did an attempt
>> to tackle the topic of special education today.
>>
>> For this, I'd like to introduce a tag *school:for* which states which is
>> the target audience of a school, e.g. *school:for=autism* if a school
>> has decent facilities or focuses on students with autism.
>>
>
>
> We have another tag which seems to follow the same concept (for different
> kind of places):
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:social_facility:for
> if you look at the values, they are all about a group of people (elderly,
> underprivileged, refugees, etc.). Your proposed list has a mix of people
> and names of disorders, for the tag school:for, namely
> autism, ADHD, reduced_mobility, dyslexia, dycalculia,
> learning_disabilities are all not refering to a group people, it should
> rather be something like "autists" instead of "autism", etc.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
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