[OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists
Mark Williams
mark.666 at blueyonder.co.uk
Sat Jun 7 08:40:13 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.
>
Actually, having gone back & re-read the actual proposal, the O.P.
wanted this tag to _distinguish_ other clinics from the specific ones...
so it's the bit about merging them, above, that I didn't like, not the
actual proposed feature, in case that last mail was unclear :)
Mark
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