[OSM-talk] tag:amenity=doctor

Ulf Lamping ulf.lamping at googlemail.com
Sun Aug 2 15:03:14 BST 2009


Martin Koppenhoefer schrieb:
> 2009/8/2 John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com>:
>>> list" but before annoying everyone on that list, I thought
>>> that which is the
>>> preferred tag should be decided.
>> JOSM has numerous tags that aren't "official"
>>
>> Speaking of which, can anyone think of a better way to put aren't listed on the map features wiki page in a concise manner?
> 
> I would in this particular case agree with Liz: the principles for
> naming amenity tags clearly state "butcher not butchers"
> but JOSM has in presets amenity=doctors which violates that principle.
> 
> Let's change this for consistency.
> 
> tagwatch has ~2700 "doctors" and ~200 "doctor"s. If JOSM-Preset was
> changed this would IMHO change rapidly. It is absolutely strange that
> Mapfeatures (complete compilation) has the entry "amenity=doctors"
> (plural) but then redirects to Proposed features/Doctor (not in
> plural).

Well, when I introduced doctors in JOSMs mappaint (and Christoph to the 
Presets), there was a clear majority of doctors and not doctor.

If people use the term doctors, we shouldn't force them to use doctor 
just to fit some guideline (not rule) in the wiki.

Regards, ULFL




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