[OSM-talk] tag:amenity=doctor

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/8/2 Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping at googlemail.com>:
> 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.

Do you remember the quantity of doctors prior to putting it into
JOSM-Standards? Because once present in JOSM, it is obvious that lots
of preset-tags will be created. Furthermore you are forcing noone,
people are still able to disregard JOSM presets.

There is a big inconsistency created by this situation anyways:
1. it is agains recommended guidelines (butcher, not butchers)
2. the mapfeatures-page (doctors) links to a different tag (doctor).

mainly because of 2.: I don't think that doctors has a different
meaning than doctor, so why should it not be consistent with
recommendations?

cheers,
Martin