[OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

sergio sevillano sergio at tumbao.ws
Sat Jun 7 10:03:14 BST 2008



sergio sevillano escribió:
> i think
>    amenity=clinic
>    medical=<servicelist>
>    emergency=yes|no
> would work great,
> here in spain we have "centro de salud" (=health center)
> wich is public health care.
> there is one in each village or suburb.
> they are meant to liberate mayor hospitals of 1st aid
> and not so important/critical doctor care.
>
> they differ a bit on medical=<servicelist>
> so specifing that list would be ok.
> they are also emergency=yes
>  i would add 
>
> operator=public or
> operator=goverment
>   
> to differentiate them from private clinics.
>
> opticians are understood the same way as uk
> they graduate your eyes to make glasses.
> if you have an illness of that kind then you go to an
> ophthalmologist
>
and as regards with the general classification i would distigish 3 types

amenity=hospital
big and with a great list of medical=<servicelist>
it has mayor sugery facilities, they open your body with a knife
has emergency care
actual icon is good for me  
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:Rendering-amenity_hospital.png 


amenity=clinic
many general practitioner
no mayor surgery, thet dont open your body with a knife
small emergency (broken bones casts, sewing wounds...)
the icon can be the same as hospital with the red cross outlined instead 
of filled.

amenity=general_practitioner
just that
the icon can be the one proposed for gp_sugery 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:Doctors_small.png
looks fine and clearly differentiates from hospital/clinic

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a forth one can be hospitals/clinics maybe with no emergency
that cover the mental illness, physical therapy, any long term care
this ones can be green icon ??


please, excuse my english

cheers
sergio sevillano


> sergio sevillano
>
> Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists) escribió:
>> 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.
>>
>>   
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