I'm against animal=shelter. As emerged in previous discussions, an animal is not a shelter. It exists amenity=animal_shelter [1] for large structures with a staff that takes care of animals and that eventually heals them. On taginfo already exists animal=shelter, and in many cases it has been used to tag what now is tagged with amenity=animal_shelter. The migration is slow because we have to check every single case. For consistency with other shelter's tags [2], I would use: amenity=shelter shelter_type=field_shelter The availability can be specified by access=* tags. After all if you need a shelter against bad weather, you can use also a field shelter, if it is accessible. In this sense consistency with amenity=shelter tag is useful. You should also update page on shelters [2] and on animals [3] when we'll agree on field shelters' tagging.
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Danimal_shelter [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:shelter_type [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Animal Alberto - Viking81 _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
