Streetcomplete: New Quest: Speciality of medical practitioners

[claudiush]

General

Affected tag(s) to be modified/added: Add healthcare=doctor + healthcare:speciality=*
Question asked: What is the speciality of a medical practitioner XY?

Checklist

Checklist for quest suggestions (see guidelines):

• [x] 🚧 To be added tag is established and has a useful purpose
• [x] 🤔 Any answer the user can give must have an equivalent tagging (Quest should not reappear to other users when solved by one)
• [x] 🐿️ Easily answerable by everyone from the outside but a survey is necessary
• [x] 💤 Not an overwhelming percentage of elements have the same answer (No spam)
• [x] 🕓 Applies to a reasonable number of elements: See taginfo for amenity=doctors

Ideas for implementation

Element selection: amenity=doctors without healthcare:speciality
E.g. Overpass:
node["amenity"="doctors"]["healthcare:speciality"!="*"]
way["amenity"="doctors"]["healthcare:speciality"!="*"]

Metadata needed: Possibly preferences for certain medical systems if prevalent in a country, e.g. "Western medicine" in European countries versus "Chinese medicine" in China, Taiwan, Korea, ...

Proposed GUI: Dropdown list with all possible value from the table "Specialities of medical practitioners or other medical facilities" at healthcare=speciality

Inspired by the German presentation by Frederik Ramm: "Lies using statistics - OpenStreetMap edition"

[matkoniecz]

Add healthcare=doctor

Why?

[exploide]

Because sometimes only amenity=doctors is tagged, but the wiki suggests also adding healthcare=doctor when further details are specified. This is also the behavior of the respective iD preset. Maybe not the most KISS/DRY-like tagging scheme but sadly that seems to be the case often.

[claudiush]

@matkoniecz To answer your "Why" question: Right now most doctors in the city I live in are just tagged as a doctors practice. I am looking for a pediatrician though, or what about a gynecologist? Where is the next dermatologist to have a look at my skin? And I'm not even talking about the plastic surgeons that are not really helpful if you want to get your flu shots.

There are various scenarios where more detail for doctors practice can be helpful to pick the right one. And it's a question you can easily answer via StreetComplete when passing by on the street.

[ENT8R]

@claudiush I think @matkoniecz wanted to know why you would want to add healthcare:doctor and healthcare:speciality. But this was already answered by @exploide, wasn't it?

[rindlerblabla]

When I had a quick look for amenity=doctors in mid Sweden they're mostly health centres which should be tagged amenity=clinic instead, so maybe it could be included in 'other answers'.

[westnordost]

The problem for this quest is that there are lots of different specialities around.

1. Another UI is necessary for that. Perhaps a plain input field with autocomplete
2. All those speciality names need to be translated into every other language. I'd really rather have some kind of "real name" <-> "OSM tag(s)" dictionary before this quest is implemented.

[rindlerblabla]

@westnordost Concerning no 2, there is a list like that on the wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:healthcare#Specialities_of_medical_practitioners_or_other_medical_facilities

[matkoniecz]

Is there even list of all specialties somewhere? I wonder is there sane way for user to select fitting one?

[rouelibre1]

Is there even list of all specialties somewhere? I wonder is there sane way for user to select fitting one?

That's a real issue. Medical specialties can differ a lot from one country to another, I've seen such lists of m edical specialties implemented per country in my previous job, but there were mappings involved everywhere and things got dirty pretty fast.