[OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists
Mark Williams
mark.666 at blueyonder.co.uk
Sat Jun 7 08:28:52 BST 2008
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Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists) wrote:
> Chris Hill wrote:
>> Clinic can apply to other medical folks, such as chiropodists and
>> physiotherapists too.
>
> And physical rehabilitation, dementia care, psychiatric counseling...
> the list might be quite a long one.
>
> I'm coming round to the opinion that the different kinds of surgeries
> are all just really kinds of what's being proposed in the rather
> stronger Clinic_(Medical) proposal. But it is probably wise to
> distinguish a dentist from a chiropodist somehow if they might be the
> only ones occupying their respective buildings.
>
> I think we should merge everything into Clinic_(Medical), either before
> it gets accepted or after. Make that mean anything from a huge
> polyclinic covering many disciplines to small doctors' surgeries and
> dental practices.
>
> So how to distinguish one sort of treatment or care from another?
> Perhaps a merged proposal for "small to medium medical facilities"
> should be something like:
>
> amenity=clinic
> medical=<servicelist>
> emergency=yes|no
>
> where <servicelist> is a semicolon-separated list of values from
> {dentist, doctor, chiropodist, physiotherapy, minor_surgery, ...}.
>
> Opticians in the UK are more like high-street shops than medical
> facilities. It would feel strange to call an optician a clinic too, even
> if the upstairs consulting rooms are all separate and have something of
> the doctor's surgery nature. Hmm.
>
The original amenity = doctor got 7 yes & 0 no votes (apart from the
routine one). I think it was liked, but not exciting anyone. I still
think it makes sense, and doesn't exclude =dentist, =osteopath,
=optician etc, and fits consistently with all other access, opening
time, & other relevant tags.
The newer clinic proposal seems relatively clumsy & not user-friendly
with a proliferation of odd but vaguely similar tags, not to mention
icons; if you have 6 green-cross based icons, most people won't recall
which meant what after a week & you might as well just have one.
I don't have a problem with an amenity=clinic tag to cover some of
Para.2 above with their own set of tags; but most countries have some
form of local doctor & other specific amenities.
Mark
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