Proposal:Healthcare=department
| healthcare=department | |
|---|---|
| Proposal status: | Proposed (under way) |
| Proposed by: | Janko |
| Draft started: | 2022-12-12 |
| RFC start: | 2022-12-13 |
Proposal
Using healthcare=department for departments of a hospital or a clinic.
This tag would be used on nodes and ways.
Rationale
In big hospitals or clinics with multiple buildings, it is useful to know where different departments are, and which specialties they perform. We already have healthcare:speciality=*, but we can only put it on hospitals, clinics and doctors. We don't have a base tag to put healthcare:speciality=* on for parts of hospitals or clinics. If we add healthcare=department, then we can map big hospitals and clinics in detail.
Tagging
This tag would be put on sub-elements of healthcare=hospital or healthcare=clinic. It doesn't make sense to tag an element outside of a hospital or a clinic area with this tag.
Tags to use in combination:
- healthcare:speciality=*
- name=* - This would often be the speciality written in the local language
- opening_hours=*
- level=*
- website=*
- phone=*
Examples
Rendering
Only letters, with the same font and color as hospitals and clinics on general maps. On specialized maps, each department would get an icon depending on the healthcare:speciality=* tag.
Features/Pages affected
In the past, amenity=clinic (and more recently, healthcare=clinic) tags were used for smaller healthcare facilities than hospitals, that don't receive overnight patients. But at one point, they started being used for departments inside a hospital. This makes sense for bigger hospital campuses that indeed have clinics that are fully self sufficient, and sometimes even have a different operator than other parts of the hospital. But for smaller hospitals, healthcare=department should be used instead of healthcare=clinic.
This tag should be added to the table on the page for healthcare=* key
The Healthcare 2.0 proposal has a health_facility:type=department tag, which would now be deprecated.
External discussions
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/tagging-healthcare-speciality-inside-a-hospital/6617/18
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2022-December/066651.html
Comments
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