Talk:Tag:healthcare=vaccination centre
Combine with healthcare:speciality=vaccination ?
Right now, the section How to map only recommends vaccination=* as an additional tag (apart from various general tags). I think it would make sense to also recommend healthcare:speciality=vaccination.
Rationale: This makes the system more consistent for data consumers - without it, to find places offering vaccination, you need to scan for both
healthcare:speciality=vaccination and healthcare=vaccination_centre (and you need to know the new tag). Having one tag effectively imply a different tag is generally problematic.
So if there's no objection, I'd like to add this to the tag documentation:
Tags to use in combination [...]healthcare:speciality=vaccination To make tagging consistent, and to help data consumers which do not (yet) know about healthcare=vaccination_centre.
Sleske (talk) 23:19, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
- I'd rather says that
healthcare:speciality=vaccinationis implied. --Jeisenbe (talk) 00:45, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
- Yes, that makes sense. Implied tags are a bit tricky for data consumers, but they exist everywhere in OSM, so I guess consumers will have to live with that. Most current uses do add healthcare:speciality=vaccination, but that may change. I edited the wiki page to mention the implied tag and current practice. -- Sleske (talk) 10:58, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
- Why don't we use
healthcare=centreandhealthcare:speciality=vaccination, but making a new keyhealthcare=vaccination_centrefor this? Or is the reason that the specialisation of the centre is vaccination only? --Lukas458 (talk) 15:24, 7 February 2022 (UTC)- Well, there's no clear "why" because each contributor may have their own reasons :-). I think some people indeed use
healthcare=centre. The problem with that is that it is a bit unspecific (see its wiki page), so using a different, more specific tag instead is recommended. And that specific tag for a vaccination centre ishealthcare=centre. So yes, the reason is essentially to indicate that the feature is for vaccination only. Sleske (talk) 09:21, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
- Well, there's no clear "why" because each contributor may have their own reasons :-). I think some people indeed use
- Why don't we use
- Yes, that makes sense. Implied tags are a bit tricky for data consumers, but they exist everywhere in OSM, so I guess consumers will have to live with that. Most current uses do add healthcare:speciality=vaccination, but that may change. I edited the wiki page to mention the implied tag and current practice. -- Sleske (talk) 10:58, 17 January 2021 (UTC)