Kathmandu Living Labs/exposuresurvey

General Tags For Educational and Health Facilities

This page lists the tags used by Open Cities Kathmandu team to map and populate exposure survey data for educational and health facilities in OpenStreetMap.

Educational Facility

Used to map and populate exposure data for educational facilities : kindergarten, school, college.

Amenity

For tagging amenity type of educational facilities

Educational Facilities

Key	Value	Element	Description
amenity	college		A college is an educational institution where students pursue their studies above the intermediate level.
amenity	kindergarten		For children too young for a regular school (also known as playschool or nursery school).
amenity	school		School and grounds; Inclusive of high schools providing classes till intermediate level.
amenity	university		A university campus.

Level of Education

Used to specify the level of education provided by an educational institution (school, college, university)

Level of education

Key	Value	Description
isced:level	college	Runs classes after intermediate level.
isced:level	higher_secondary	Runs classes till intermediate level.
isced:level	kindergarten	Pre-school for kids.
isced:level	lower_secondary	Runs classes till 8th grade.
isced:level	primary	Runs classes till 5th grade.
isced:level	secondary	Runs classes till 10th grade.
isced:level	university	Provides both undergraduate and postgraduate education.

Management-type of educational facility

Used to tag management-type of educational facility.

Type of educational facility

Key	Value	Description
operator:type	community	This type of educational facility is run through community resources.
operator:type	government	This type of educational facility is run by the government.
operator:type	private	This type of educational facility is run by private bodies.

Additional Attributes of Educational Building

Additional Attributes of the buildings

Key	Value	Description
building_count	number	The number of buildings in an educational facility.
personnel:count	number	Staff number - teaching and non-teaching.
student:count	number	The number of students in an educational facility.

Health Facility

Used to map and populate exposure data for health facilities : hospital, clinic, health-post.

Amenity

For tagging amenity type of health facilities.

Key	Value	Element	Description
amenity	clinic		Private medical centres run by a group of doctors or a single doctor.
amenity	dentist		Provides oral health services.
amenity	health_post		Medical centres run by the Government to provide free primary health services to local communities.
amenity	hospital		Bigger units in terms of health service providers where treatment is provided by specialized staff and equipments.

Management-type of Health Facility

Used to tag management-type of educational facility.

Key	Value	Description
operator:type	community	This type of health facility is run by community resources.
operator:type	government	This type of health facility is run by the government.
operator:type	private	This type of health faciltiy is run by private bodies.

Services rendered

These tags are used for defining the services rendered by health facilities.

Key	Value	Description
facility:icu	yes / no	Presence or absence of Intensive Care Unit.
facility:operating_theatre	yes / no	Presence or absence of Operation Theatre.
facility:ventilator	yes / no	Presence or absence of Ventilator.
facility:x-ray	yes / no	Presence or absence of X-ray.

Additional Attributes

Key	Value	Description
building_count	number	The number of buildings in a health facility.
capacity:beds	number	The number of beds available for treatment in a health facility.
opd:patients:count	number	The number of OPD patients in a day.

Building

Used to tag educational and health facility buildings. See Buildings for further details of usage of this tag and man_made=* for tagging of various other structures.

Building

Key	Value	Element	Description
building	clinic		A building where a doctor/group of doctors run medical check ups. Also see amenity=clinic
building	college		A college building. Use amenity=college to tag a college premise.
building	dentist		A building where dentists provide oral health services. For more details check amenity=dentist
building	health_post		A building owned/rented by government to provide free medical services to local patients.
building	hospital		A building which forms part of a hospital. Use amenity=hospital for the hospital ground.
building	kindergarten		A building where pre-school children are looked after. Use amenity=kindergarten to tag the kindergarten.
building	school		A school building. Also see amenity=school
building	university		A building which forms part of an university. Also see amenity=university

Building Structure

Used to identify structural system of buildings. The structural system must be examined by knowledgeable person.

Key	Value	Description
building:structure	adobe	One of the oldest building typology in Nepal. Sun-dried bricks (earthen) with mud mortar are used for construction of walls.
building:structure	engineered_reinforced_concrete	Column size is minimum of 300 mm X 300 mm or more depending on load induced.
building:structure	load_bearing_concrete_block_wall_in_cement_mortar	Concrete blocks in cement mortar.
building:structure	load_bearing_concrete_block_wall_in_mud_mortar	Concrete blocks in mud mortar.
building:structure	load_bearing_brick_wall_in_cement_mortar	The structural walls are one brick thick (230mm) constructed in 1:6 cement sand mortar, in general.
building:structure	load_bearing_brick_wall_in_limesurkhi_mortar	A composition of lime and surkhi is used to improve the quality of mortar in buildings. Most of the buildings built during Rana regime are of this type.
building:structure	load_bearing_brick_wall_in_mud_mortar	Brick walls in mud mortar. The walls are usually 350-450 mm. thick.
building:structure	load_bearing_stone_wall_in_cement_mortar	Cement mortar is used to bind the stones together. The walls are usually 14-18 inches thick.
building:structure	load_bearing_stone_wall_in_mud_mortar	Mud mortar is used to bind the stones together. The walls are usually 18-24 inches thick.
building:structure	non_engineered_reinforced_concrete	Building structural system with reinforced concrete frames and unreinforced brick masonry infill in cement mortar. The column size is predominantly 9x9 inches, infill walls are 9 inch thick and internal walls are 4.5 inch thick.

Floor Material

Used to tag the type of floor materials available in buildings.

Key	Value	Description
floor:material	bamboo	Flexible bamboo flooring.
floor:material	concrete	Rigid type of flooring with reinforced cement concrete.
floor:material	jack_arch	Semi-rigid jack-arch flooring.
floor:material	wood	Wooden flooring.

Roof

You can characterize the building roof using a catalogue of well known roof types. Additional roof shapes may be introduced later (S3DB_Proposals), including advanced approaches for manual modelling (e.g., ProposedRoofLines or parts of OSM-4D/Roof_table).

Image
roof:shape	flat	skillion	gabled	half-hipped	hipped	pyramidal	gambrel	mansard	dome	onion	round

Roof Material

Outer Material of Roof .

Key	Value	Description	Picture
roof:material	thatch	Thatched roof
roof:material	roof_tiles	Tiles are put together to roof a building.	Photo Courtesy: NSET
roof:material	metal	Metal, flat or waved is used for roofing.	[[1]]
roof:material	concrete	RCC/RBC roofing.	Roof made of concrete

Additional Information

Key	Value	Description
building:ownership	self / rent	The ownership of a facility building.
building:levels	number	Number of floors of a building above the ground (without levels in the roof). If you tag new buildings, try to give a height value. Try to use building:levels=* only in addition to an height tag!
start_date	number	The age of a building in terms of it construction year.
retrofit	yes / no	Yes if a building has been retrofitted.

Vulnerability Factors

These factors aid to the identification of weak links in building structures.

Building Neighbourhood

Adjacency of buildings is used to study the pounding effect of one building on another.

Photo Courtesy: NSET

Key	Value	Description
building:adjacency	one_side_same_height	If a building has another building of same floor height adjacent to it on one side. Note that the buildings may have different number of storeys but the same floor height.
building:adjacency	one_side_different_height	If a building has another building of a different floor height adjacent to it on one side.
building:adjacency	two_side_same_height	If a building has adjacent buildings of same floor height on any two sides.
building:adjacency	two_side_different_height	If a building has adjacent buildings of different floor heights on any two sides.
building:adjacency	three_side_same_height	If a building has adjacent buildings of the same floor height on three of its sides.
building:adjacency	three_side_different_height	If a building has adjacent buildings of different floor heights on three of its sides.
building:adjacency	free_standing	If a building is sufficiently spaced from other buildings on all four sides, it is a free standing building.

Shape in Plan

Shape and geometry of buildings are used to determine earthquake resistance.

Key	Value	Description	Picture
shape:plan	rectangular	A building shaped like a box, as rectangular in plan.
shape:plan	triangular	Triangular shaped building plan.
shape:plan	multiprojected	If the building plan has multiple projections.
shape:plan	narrow_long	If the length of a building is 3 times its breadth.
shape:plan	L-shape	L-shaped building plan; projected part if less than 1/6th of the building length, it is considered to be rectangular in shape.
shape:plan	T-shape	T-shaped building plan.
shape:plan	U-shape	U-shaped building plan.

Shape in Elevation

Vertical geometric shape of buildings is termed as shape in elevation.

Key	Value	Description
shape:elevation	regular	If the vertical geometry of a building is regular.
shape:elevation	setback	Building geometry with upper stories set back from a broader base structure.
shape:elevation	narrow_long	If the height of a building is 3 times longer than the base length.

Physical Condition

The observed physical condition of a building. This is related to the structural strength of a building and not the tidiness.

Key	Value	Description
physical_condition	poor	If a building has low quality of construction and material deterioration.
physical_condition	average	If a building has average quality of construction and finishing.
physical_condition	good	If the building has good quality of construction and finishing.

Presence of Earthquake Resistant materials

The presence of bands at lintel, sill and roof level, corner stitches, vertical reinforcements at corners and junctions of wall.

Key	Value	Description
seismic_resistance	yes	Presence of earthquake resistant element. Retrofitting includes lintel beam, sill band, vertical reinforcement and corner stitch in masonry structures
seismic_resistance	partial	Lintel beams present, other retrofitting elements absent.
seismic_resistance	no	No retrofitting elements.

Additional Attributes

Key	Value	Description
building:overhang	yes / no	Presence or absence of walls in projected cantilever or slabs more than 5 feet.
building:soft_storey	yes / no	Soft storey commonly occurs in buildings in urban areas where ground floor is usually open for parking or shops for commercial purposes.
building:bay:x	number	Number of beams rigidly connected to columns on either side along E-W direction. For L-shaped, U-shaped and multi-projected buildings, only the number of bays of the projected wing is noted, ie. minimum number of bays along either direction.
building:bay:y	number	Number of beams rigidly connected to columns on either side along N-S direction.
column:size	'number'x'number'	Lateral dimensions of column in inches.