[OSM-talk] RFC: amenity=mortuary (and amenity=emergency_room)

[Greg Troxel]

David Paleino <d.paleino at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
> I was mapping an hospital, and encountered two mortuaries/morgues. So I've
> tagged them amenity=mortuary, building=yes, and proposed the new tag:
>
>   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Amenity:mortuary
>
> Any comment is highly appreciated, before I move it to vote :)
>
> Also, inside the same hospital, there is an ER, which is a separate building in
> my case. Thus I didn't find the combination amenity=hospital, emergency=yes
> (which insteads is applied to the whole hospital area) useful, and I've tagged
> it amenity=emergency_room. Before I draft a proposal for this too, is there
> anyone experienced with such a situation?

I think we are in danger of having a million top-level tags, and that
trying to be a bit more hierarchical is better.

What about relation on all the buildings with amenity=hospital, or a
polygon on the grounds, and then a point for the main entrance with
amenity=hospital and a point for the ER entrance with amenity=hospital
emergency=yes?  I generally lean towards the simplest adequate scheme.
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