Proposal:Healthcare 1.1

Healthcare 1.1
Proposal status:	Proposed (under way)
Proposed by:	SafetyIng
Tagging:	healthcare=* Data item
Applies to:
Definition:	Cleanup healthcare tagging after healthcare proposal 2010
Statistics:
Draft started:	2022-10-02
RFC start:	2022-10-02

Proposal

• Deprecate amenity=clinic, amenity=dentist, amenity=hospital, amenity=doctors, amenity=doctors, amenity=pharmacy
• Deprecate amenity=nursing_home and amenity=retirement_home, because they have already been replaced by amenity=social_facility + social_facility=*
• Introduce the existing and approved healthcare=* tagging as a "main feature", as envisaged in the first healthcare proposal in 2010.

Rationale

With the 2010 proposal, there is a double-tagging option for health facilities. Some of the editors once included it and then discarded it. This leads sometimes to confusion by mappers.

To tidy up this situation, I propose the following changes. Likewise, editors, mappers and data users will then have a uniform consensus for further development.

In an article on community.osm.org, the distribution levels between amenity and healthcare were compared accordingly and graphics were posted.

Tagging

In the tagging itself, there will be no major changes in either option A or B. Only the introduction of amenity=healthcare, if necessary.

Features/Pages affected

• Key:amenity
• Tag:amenity=doctors
• Tag:amenity=dentist
• Tag:amenity=hospital
• Tag:amenity=clinic
• Tag:amenity=nursing home
• Tag:amenity=retirement home
• Tag:social facility=nursing home
• Tag:social facility=group home
• Tag:amenity=social facility

External discussions

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/doppeltagging-amenity-doctors-healthcare-doctor/2602

Comments

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