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

Stuart Reynolds stuart at travelinesoutheast.org.uk
Thu Feb 18 10:02:56 UTC 2016


I would stick with school. In Southend we have a number of primary schools with nursery units, called "XYZ Primary School & Nursery". Those would clearly be schools, and it makes no sense to have an artificial separation for others.

Regards 
Stuart

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> On 17 Feb 2016, at 21:11, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 17/02/16 19:12, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Well coverage of 'Nursery' by edubase seems a little fragmented. Across
> Worcestershire and Herfordshire there is only one entry and I remember
> switching it to school by just as happy now it has all the tags to
> switching back, but I know of many other nurseries many of which are on
> OSM, but not 'yet?' covered by edubase. Since there are some 400 nursery
> entries it should be possible to tidy them up as a 'kindergarden'
> entries anyway?
> 
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