Proposal:Practitioners
| Practitioners | |
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| Proposal status: | Proposed (under way) |
| Proposed by: | GA Kevin |
| Tagging: | practitioners=* |
| Applies to: |    
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| Definition: | A list of practitioners practicing in a given location. |
| Statistics: |
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| Rendered as: | hidden |
| Draft started: | 2025-01-09 |
| RFC start: | 2025-01-09 |
Proposal
Add a key practitioners=* to list the practitioners in a given location.
Rationale
Many professional locations list publicly the practitioners=* that practice within a location. Most notably medical, legal, and accountant firms are sometimes referred to more by the practitioner located within a location than the formal name of the building or office itself. This information can be a valuable addition to the data within OSM by adding the ability to query and filter by practitioner name as well as the building or office name. Additionally, further use can be used by querying healthcare:speciality=* or craft=* to display a list of all practitioners in a given predefined area or operator. This tag is intended to be used to signify a list of one or more individuals, all of whom are operating in one location, all of whom are practicing the same speciality.
Special care should be taken when listing practitioners to only list those names which are publicly made available, such as those listed on a sign or advertisement.
Potential issues
There exists several potential issues with a single `practitioners:*` tag.
- Length limit and readability, if many practitioners operate in the same location, the value of this tag can theoretically get very large. Talk page.
- Duplication if a practitioner has a "home office" but also "visiting offices" such as a doctor with a primary office, and is also a frequent practitioner at the local hospital.
- Differing information within a location. Such as when a pair of lawyers share a office, staff, and other attributes, but each has their own email.
Nevertheless, the practitioners tag potential benefit far exceeds the challenges of how to mitigate these potential issues and further refinement can be made throughout the proposal process.
Tagging
| Tag | Tagged On | Description | Example |
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| practitioners=* |
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A list of individuals and appropriate titles that practice at a given location. | practitioners=Jane Doe, MD; John Doe, CNA |
| practitioners:count=* |
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A count of individual practitioners at a given location. | practitioners:count=7 |
Changes based on community feedback
Originally, the 
practitioners:primary=* and practitioners:support=* were included to designate the primary and support practitioners at a given location. This served a dual purpose of listing senior members apart from non-senior members as well as double the Unicode character limit that can be used for such. After community input, these run a risk of personal non-public information inadvertently entering the database. While recognizing the character limit of the overall 
practitioners=* it was agreed to limit the scope to only the single and practitioners:count=*.
External discussions
Comments
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