Birgit Huesken wrote: >>> There are places where people, who for different reasons >>> can't stay >>> alone or in their families, live. The idea is to create a >> What you are describing is normally known (at least here) as "shelters". For >> homeless people and domestic violence victims etc. >> > > If I understood you correctly, shelters are something like "emergency > places" or homes where people stay for a comparably short time. > What I mean are places where people really _live_ instead of staying > alone or with their families, not for emergency reasons but following > a decision well thought over. Don't know if this sounds a bit pathetic > but I don't know how to describe it in a better way at the moment.
Residential Home in the UK is definitely a term to describe a place where usually elderly people, but vulnerable people in general, live communally, usually involving professional care and sometimes advanced medical care (though this is often called a Nursing Home; the distinction is not a hard one). So I think your tag is an appropriate description. Emergency shelters are something else. (And in many cases will not be recognisable from the street as they often need to be discreet - e.g. refuges) David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
