[OSM-talk] tag:amenity=doctor

[Ulf Lamping]

Martin Koppenhoefer schrieb:
> 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?

Because it *IS IN USE* otherwise.

Regards, ULFL