[Talk-GB] SureStart Children's Centres

[Matt Williams]

On 21 March 2011 17:53, Derick Rethans <osm at derickrethans.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Ed Loach wrote:
>> Steve wrote:
>>
>> > How do you tag these? I confess I don't really know what they are.
>>
>> I'd be tempted to make up a tag, or maybe use designation= as I
>> think often the centres are primarily something else.
>>
>> http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Parents/Preschooldevelopmentandlearning/
>> NurseriesPlaygroupsReceptionClasses/DG_173054
>> says what they are, and I know the nursery where my son goes has the
>> logo on the outside, but they are definitely a nursery first and
>> provide a room for the weekly health visitor where very young
>> children can go and have their regular weigh-in. Doing a search for
>> other centres locally and one is a kindergarten and the other is a
>> family centre (whatever one of those is, but sounds like some
>> council provided facility and an OSM wiki search suggests to me
>> amenity=social_facility may be appropriate for that one.)
>
> I have mapped one as a school, but I guess it should be a kindergarten:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/58242208

Indeed. I've been tagging these as amenity=kindergarten [1].

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Matt Williams
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[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=kindergarten