[OSM-talk] I've added some amenity values to "Map Features" based on tag usage

[Mark Williams]

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Chris Browet wrote:
>     It's fairly standard usage, you see a doctor at the doctors, a butcher
>     runs the butchers. There should really be an apostrophe in there I
>     think, ie: the butcher's shop, the doctor's surgery. But that's not
>     really how people think of it. Just stick both on and point out
>     everyone else's bad grammar :-)
> 
> 
> Please bear with non-native english speaker. I agree we all use english
> for easyness but those subtleties seem far-fetched.
> Let's keep it simple and avoid the
> "non-grammatically-correct-possessive-case".
> 
> I think the tag value should represent a concept, not be grammatically
> correct.
> We might as well use "A124" or whatever. If everybody agrees it means a
> doctor amenity in whatever language, the goal is reached.
> Obviously, it's far less mnemonic, though... :-)
> 
> - Chris -
> 
<grammar-fascist>
The apostrophe is not correct anyway. It denotes a missed letter, in
this word-position it would be 'doctor is', as opposed to the
non-apostrophe version meaning 'belong to the the doctor' or plural doctors.
Doctors' is just silly but would be technically correct(ish) for
multiple doctors (plural)
</grammar-fascist>
I hope we all enjoyed that.
Given that the tags are in use, I'm going to pull rank & declare a
special interest ;) - use amenity=doctors.
DrMark

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