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

Ken Guest ken at linux.ie
Thu May 14 12:48:48 BST 2009


On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:39 PM, David Paleino <d.paleino at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 May 2009 18:16:59 +0200, Fabrizio Carrai wrote:
>
> > I agree for the "morgue" term.
>
> Well, ok. I'm not particularly in favour of one version over the other ;)
>
> > I would say something to key "amenity" an why I would prefer the use of
> the
> > key "landuse"
>
> Well, "landuse"?!.. it's not "land", it usually is a building... Maybe I'm
> missing this, but maybe you forgot your motivations for "landuse"?
>
> > I don't know in other launguages but in italian the most common meaning
> for
> > AMENITY is something nice, beautiful, pleasant...
>
> Eh già ;)
> However, I'd really stick to "amenity": those are meant as "facilities"
> (maybe
> "facility=" would be better? But then we would need to change a *lot* of
> tags
> out there)



eh, so somebody would need to write some update rules for a bot to change
them.
I don't see the problem with regards to mass edits such as what would be
required here.

It makes far more sense to use a sensible tag name that can best describe
what is required/being tagged.


k.

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