[talk-au] operator:type to distinguish private/public hospitals | Was: Re: [Tagging] Classifying hospitals (Was: Deprecate healthcare=centre)

[Mateusz Konieczny]

operator:type=religious;private is possible


Jan 11, 2021, 05:46 by andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com:

> Pretty sure you can't have two tags (keys) the same with different values.
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> If it's run by a religious organisation then I would say it should be tagged as operator:type=religious. Religious is just a special type of private. So public hospitals would just be all which are not operator:type=public.
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> On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 at 15:33, Phil Wyatt <> phil at wyatt-family.com> > wrote:
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>> So a private hospital run by a religious order gets two tags?
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>> operator:type <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:operator>>> =>> private AND >> operator:type <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:operator>>> =>> religious?
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>> From:>>  Andrew Harvey <>> andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>> > 
>> Sent:>>  Monday, 11 January 2021 1:01 PM
>> To:>>  OSM Australian Talk List <>> talk-au at openstreetmap.org>> >
>> Subject:>>  [talk-au] operator:type to distinguish private/public hospitals | Was: Re: [Tagging] Classifying hospitals (Was: Deprecate healthcare=centre)
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>> On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 at 11:03, Graeme Fitzpatrick <>> graemefitz1 at gmail.com>> > wrote:
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>>> That is the main distinction though, at least in Australia, although I know that it changes around the world. In a "private" hospital, you personally (or your health insurance fund) will pay for it, while a public hospital is funded by the Government so you won't pay for treatment.
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>> Not sure if anyone else is interested, but after reading this I thought I'd try to add some more detail to hospitals, and created the Map Roulette challenge to add the operator:type tag to hospitals to distinguish private/public hospitals.
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>> https://maproulette.org/challenge/15892
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