Proposed features/Amenity:mortuary
| amenity:mortuary | |
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| Status: | Draft (under way) |
| Proposed by: | [[User:User:Hanska|User:Hanska]] |
| Tagging: | amenity=mortuary |
| Applies to: |  
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| Definition: | a mortuary/morgue within a hospital, or detached in a city |
| Rendered as: | |
| Draft start: | 2009-05-11 |
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Contents |
Proposal
A morgue or mortuary is a building or room (as in a hospital) used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification, or removal for autopsy, burial, cremation or some other post-death ritual.
Rationale
It is a common structure in hospitals, or also as a detached building in big cities.
Examples
I have myself tagged two buildings as amenity=mortuary (or we could also choose =morgue) into "[Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico Paolo Giaccone]" in Palermo.
Applies to
Nodes, areas.
Rendering
A small icon at zoom levels 16-18 ?
Comments
Please write any comments :)
Are these really amenities? There are a lot of other healthcare related features besides morgues, and these need a separate tag imo, please see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/healthcare -- Pfr 07:52, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
- Agreed, but let's please focus comments on "*=mortuary"/"*=morgue", thank you :).. Hanska 14:06, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
I would prefer the tag to be morgue, not mortuary. In some parts of the world, the word mortuary is used for a funeral home, not a morgue. We'd probably be better off picking the word with the one usage. DancingFool 08:14, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
