[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Residential home

[David Earl]

Birgit Huesken wrote:
>>> There are places where people, who for different reasons
>>> can't stay
>>> alone or in their families, live. The idea is to create a
>> What you are describing is normally known (at least here) as "shelters". For homeless people and domestic violence victims etc.
>>
> 
> If I understood you correctly, shelters are something like "emergency
> places" or homes where people stay for a comparably short time.
> What I mean are places where people really _live_ instead of staying
> alone or with their families, not for emergency reasons but following
> a decision well thought over. Don't know if this sounds a bit pathetic
> but I don't know how to describe it in a better way at the moment.

Residential Home in the UK is definitely a term to describe a place 
where usually elderly people, but vulnerable people in general, live 
communally, usually involving professional care and sometimes advanced 
medical care (though this is often called a Nursing Home; the 
distinction is not a hard one).

So I think your tag is an appropriate description.

Emergency shelters are something else. (And in many cases will not be 
recognisable from the street as they often need to be discreet - e.g. 
refuges)

David