Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Evacuation Route

2017-09-08 Thread Eric Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/07/2017 10:53 PM, Nick Hocking wrote: > Will this proposal contain alternate evacuation routes, and an > indication by whom and when they would be activated? If the state/local authorities have designated a route as an evacuation route then I

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Evacuation Route

2017-09-08 Thread Eric Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/08/2017 05:05 AM, Lukas Sommer wrote: > As key:evacuation_route is currently almost exclusively used on > relations anyway, it might make more sense to deprecate this tag and > instead define a new value for route=* on type=route relations (and

Re: [Tagging] Emergency shelters

2017-09-08 Thread Eric Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/07/2017 11:24 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > do you recall why emergency:social_facility=shelter was chosen as a tag, > rather than a simple "emergency=shelter"? Because social_facility > shelter in osm is used with a different meaning, so it

Re: [Tagging] Emergency shelters

2017-09-08 Thread Eric Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/07/2017 11:12 PM, Nick Hocking wrote: > Eric wrote "Why would you delete data that is still valid and > useful?" > > > My concern is that if these are permanent features, then people > will say "ooh - they'll be the same as last time" and o

Re: [Tagging] Emergency shelters

2017-09-07 Thread Eric Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/07/2017 04:08 AM, Nick Hocking wrote: > The list of emergency centers would be very much dependent on where > the threat is and what the nature of the threat is. As a former emergency management planner I'll go on the record as saying... kinda

[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Evacuation Route

2017-09-07 Thread Eric Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Evacuation_routes Emergency evacuation routes, with direction, for various types of emergencies. Thanks, Eric "Sparks" -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEERiNfHJ4f0jHRHow5g9FPLsqcWWwF

Re: [Tagging] Fire hydrants vs suction_point

2017-08-17 Thread Eric Christensen
On 08/17/2017 10:47 AM, Viking wrote: > In the case of commercial/industrial local water networks fed by pumps, we > all agree to use emergency=fire_hydrant. Because externally (at least here in > Italy) they are not distinguishable from hydrants fed by public mains and > they have the same usag

Re: [Tagging] Fire hydrants vs suction_point

2017-08-17 Thread Eric Christensen
On 08/17/2017 10:12 AM, marc marc wrote: > Hello, > > Le 17. 08. 17 à 14:50, Moritz a écrit : >> the hydrant (by the meaning of the word) is something connected >> to the water main ;) > If I read the previous wikipedia link, there are pressurized hydrant and > not-pressurized hydrant. > If wikip

Re: [Tagging] Fire hydrants vs suction_point

2017-08-17 Thread Eric Christensen
On 08/17/2017 08:50 AM, Moritz wrote: > But "dry" hydrants are always connected to other water sources like > ponds, wells, water_tanks. > They are not isolated things on the field. So you have the "dry" hydrant > which is next to a pond/lake/etc. and > connected to it. A dry hydrant is just a con

[Tagging] Evacuation Routes

2017-05-08 Thread Eric Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Greetings from Maryland (USA), Here in the USA we're getting prepared for our Hurricane Season[0]. I worked for ten years in the disaster preparedness world and did a lot to help people prepare for the inevitable. With that said, I'd like to make