[Talk-GB] amenity=schools vs amenity=kindergarten

[Brian Prangle]

I'd prefer that these are classed as schools as that's what they're
called.  Rgds Brian

On 17 February 2016 at 19:12, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) <
robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've just done another update to the official data in my Schools tool
> at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/schools/ , with the small change that
> I've excluded Edubase entries of type "LA Nursery School". Looking at
> a few examples I concluded that these were likely to be for
> pre-school-age children. My understanding is that these entities would
> therefore be better tagged as amenity=kindergarten rather than
> amenity=school.
>
> The result of this change in my tool is that there are now a number of
> new entries at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/schools/matching-queries.html
> for these "Nursery Schools" -- where they have been tagged with a
> correct Edubase URN, but now that Edubase entry has been excluded from
> my tool. You'll probably also find a number of new red circles on the
> progress maps where these "schools" in OSM no longer have anything to
> be matched to from my Edubase import.
>
> Before anyone goes bulk changing these OSM objects to
> amenity=kindergarten (which then won't be picked up by my tool when I
> next update the OSM data -- as it currently only fetches
> amenity=school and amenity=college objects) I thought it best to check
> here whether my assumption about how these "LA Nursery Schools" should
> be tagged is correct. If the consensus is otherwise, I'd be happy to
> add the "LA Nursery School" category back into what I fetch from
> Edubase.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Robert.
>
> --
> Robert Whittaker
>
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