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

[Jez Nicholson]

I found a website that lists all special needs schools in the UK
https://www.specialneedsuk.org/findaschool.asp Many schools specialise in a
large number of disabilities, so the list could get long.

My local examples have no tag identifying them as being different to any
other school, e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/455544679 Hamilton
Lodge School and College for Deaf Children, and
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/455544675 St. John’s School and College
(For children & young people with complex needs).

On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 12:11 PM Yves via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
wrote:

> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=hear
> ->nope
>
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=deaf
> ->access:deaf is sometimes associated with schools
>
> Probably access:* is used in those cases for schools. The access tag seems
> rather rarely associated with disabilities.
>
> It's not news that OSM is not really on the edge in mapping social
> facilities, however it still feels odd having such low numbers in taginfo.
>
> It's maybe worth asking on channels involved in diversity, people there
> sometimes have good social insights.
>
> Yves
>
>
> Le 17 juin 2022 10:41:51 GMT+02:00, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
> tagging at openstreetmap.org> a écrit :
>>
>> I see that I actually used school:for=blind in 2021:
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/548913103/history
>>
>>
>> 17 cze 2022, 10:08 od jez.nicholson at gmail.com:
>>
>> 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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