Chris Hill wrote: > Clinic can apply to other medical folks, such as chiropodists and > physiotherapists too.
And physical rehabilitation, dementia care, psychiatric counseling... the list might be quite a long one. I'm coming round to the opinion that the different kinds of surgeries are all just really kinds of what's being proposed in the rather stronger Clinic_(Medical) proposal. But it is probably wise to distinguish a dentist from a chiropodist somehow if they might be the only ones occupying their respective buildings. I think we should merge everything into Clinic_(Medical), either before it gets accepted or after. Make that mean anything from a huge polyclinic covering many disciplines to small doctors' surgeries and dental practices. So how to distinguish one sort of treatment or care from another? Perhaps a merged proposal for "small to medium medical facilities" should be something like: amenity=clinic medical=<servicelist> emergency=yes|no where <servicelist> is a semicolon-separated list of values from {dentist, doctor, chiropodist, physiotherapy, minor_surgery, ...}. Opticians in the UK are more like high-street shops than medical facilities. It would feel strange to call an optician a clinic too, even if the upstairs consulting rooms are all separate and have something of the doctor's surgery nature. Hmm. -- Andrew Chadwick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk