[OSM-talk] no rendering of amenity=veterinary

[Daniel Neugebauer]

Hi!

I recently added a veterinary to OSM by setting amenity=veterinary as approved 
in August 2008; see: 

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Veterinary

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dveterinary

Unfortunately, veterinaries are not yet being rendered by Osmarender or 
Mapnik. The proposal contained a paw icon to be rendered, whereas a different 
icon was proposed on the same wiki page by Ulfl:

http://www.gpsdrive.de/development/map-icons/classic.big/health/veterinary.png

The second icon is also used by JOSM and commonly used in Germany (a V for 
veterinary (?) and a rod of Asclepius).


Are there any plans for including vet support in terms of an icon on the 
official maps? It has been over a year since the proposal was approved and I 
couldn't find anything new about its progress for being supported by Mapnik or 
Osmarender. Is there anything that prevents adding an icon?


If rendered, an icon should be shown e.g. there: (node 603392630, not visible 
on current tiles)

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.43027&lon=13.2372&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF


According to http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/amenity/veterinary there are currently 
835 global nodes with amenity=veterinary; adding rendering support could be 
useful.


By the way, I think emergency=yes|no could also make sense on 
amenity=veterinary but I don't know if that's something that should be 
rendered as well (currently only 3 nodes use that unapproved tag). It's not 
yet in the wiki for veterinaries but for hospitals. However, a proposal for 
different hospital icons has been abandoned, but I wanted to point out that 
possibility if someone is going to implement the missing rendering of 
veterinaries anyway (see 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Hospital:_Emergency ).

Bye,
Daniel