[Talk-ko] a dozen hospitals in every street does that make sense?

[Jonas Stein]

>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.498988&lon=127.027259&zoom=18
>> Any ideas what went wrong?
> Yes, these are all clinics of some kind (plastic surgery, skin clinic, eye 
> clinic, etc.).  They are not hospitals, but they have been incorrectly 
> classed as amenity=hospital during the import process.

> I can see two solutions.  One is to manually inspect each 'hospital' and  
> change the tags to the correct values.  The other is to ask the original 
> importer (cyana) to fix them with a bulk operation (somehow).

May be that would be the clean solution if cyana could do that.
Some of the POIs are twice there. May be it should be a second surgery
or 

> In the example street you have given, can you suggest the correct tags for 
> each of the 'hospitals'?  I haven't looked, but does the wiki have a 
> definition for 'clinic' or 'plastic surgeon'?  What do you think we should 
> use?


The definition in osm wiki and wikipedia gives me this point of view:

hospital : a building for healthcare where ill people can stay
clinic: similar to hospital, but people usually do not stay there. 
several or many doctors cooperate there.
doctors office: one or few doctors operate there. "doctor's surgery"

As all theses POIs are from an import i suppose no mapper has ever 
seen these in reallife.
Looking at the large number of clinics and hospitals i suppose these
are doctors:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Ddoctor
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Ddoctors

Are this POIs rather a whole house for health care with many doctors,
or is it a one-doctor surgery with two rooms?

Kind regards,

-- 
Jonas Stein <news at jonasstein.de>