Tag:healthcare=dentist

healthcare = 
Description
A dentist practice / surgery. Used in addition to amenity=dentist Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: health
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Useful combination
See also
Status: approvedPage for proposal
More details at taginfo
Tools for this tag

A dentist / dental practice / dental surgery /dental clinic. A place where a professional dental surgeon who specializes in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases and conditions on oral care is stationed. This is normally tagged amenity=dentist, but some mappers also add healthcare=.

How to map

Use that tag healthcare= on a node node placed in the centre of the building, or on a closed way (area) area drawn around the perimeter of the building. The common tag amenity=dentist is also added.

Tags used in combination

Dental specialities

Tag Description
healthcare:speciality=dental_oral_maxillo_facial_surgery Oral and maxillofacial surgery
healthcare:speciality=dentistry Dentistry
healthcare:speciality=endodontics Endodontics
healthcare:speciality=implantology Implantology
healthcare:speciality=orthodontics Orthodontics
healthcare:speciality=pediatric_dentistry Pediatric dentistry
healthcare:speciality=periodontics Periodontology
healthcare:speciality=stomatology Stomatology

Tag history

This tag was introduced as part of a healthcare proposal[1] and intentionally duplicates amenity=dentist. It is used by some with intention of replacing and deprecating amenity=dentist in the future. The plan is to

  1. Add healthcare= to existing amenity=dentist objects
  2. Add support in at least prominent data consumers for also healthcare= in addition to supporting amenity=dentist
  3. Remove support for amenity=dentist in data consumers and remove this tag from hospitals

There is opposition to this potential deprecation of widely used tag amenity=dentist[2], but it also has some notable support[3].

Attempt to deprecate amenity=dentist was done in 2022 using proposal process.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Proposed features/Healthcare
  2. ↑ as of early 2020 JOSM is not including support for healthcare tag
  3. ↑ Rejection of dropping support in iD
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