OpenStreetMap
A simple survey and proposal about tagging cram schools
Postat per yumean1119 a 22 de mai 2019 en EnglishThis is the English version of osm.org/user/yumean1119/diary/364501
Hello.
I have wanted to organize tagging schemes of educational institutions outside school. I conducted a simple survey to understand the current situation, using cram schools as an example.
For this survey, we focused on “Meiko Gijuku”(明光義塾), which is a nationwide chain of tutoring schools. https://www.meikogijuku.jp
When I typed “明光義塾” into OpenStreetMap Nominatim, 49 POIs appeared. (As of May 22, 2019)
Here is the result:
Number of tags
amenity=school 18
amenity=prep_school 14
amenity=training 5
office=educational_institution 4
office=company 2
amenity=preschool 1
shop=yes 1
only building=* 4
Findings and my opinions:
amenity=school and amenity=prep_school account for about 2/3 of the total.
*amenity=school is obviously considered inappropriate. I think this should be limited to formal schools (Both public and private).
*Both English and Japanese pages for amenity=prep_school in the OSM wiki pages have only one line . Also, as far as I have looked up the preliminary school on wikipedia,
I think it is appropriate to interpret it as a “high school” to prepare for advancing to higher education, but at least these “high schools” in Japan are nothing but amenity=school.
*amenity=training has been abandoned.
osm.wiki/Proposed_features/training
*amenity=preschool is the old tag for preschool and is now replaced by amenity=kindergarten.
The spelling is very similar to prep_school, and it is also linked from JA: How to map a, so a mapper may have used it incorrectly.
osm.wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dpreschool
*In my opinion,the most appropriate current tag for representing cram schools is office=educational_institution.
However, as far as I can see from Meikogijuku, there is only one person who uses this other than me.
And the wiki page says it is intended to be used for public education organizations such as boards of education.