[Talk-ca] Urgent care centre

[Tristan Anderson]

amenity=clinic sounds great.  I hope they're not officially called "urgent care centres" and they certainly shouldn't be tagged as such in OSM.  If I got shot and saw an urgent care centre, I'd probably make the same mistake.

> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:15:19 -0500
> From: andrewpmk at gmail.com
> To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-ca] Urgent care centre
> 
> How do you tag an urgent care centre? (An urgent care centre is a
> non-24 hour health care facility for less severe health problems.
> Typically they are former emergency rooms).
> 
> I want to prevent an incident like this happening:
> <http://www.cp24.com/news/man-shot-to-death-while-riding-in-car-in-north-etobicoke-1.2679687>
> A shooting victim mistakenly went to what is now an urgent care centre
> (was a hospital) near Jane & Finch and died.
> 
> I changed the former location of Humber River Regional Hospital to
> amenity=clinic, emergency=no from amenity=hospital, emergency=no. I
> don't want hospitals without emergency rooms to show up in a search
> for "hospital".
> 
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