On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:19 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > In Australia the ambulance service is a completely different > organisation to fire and police and I can almost bet some would be > tagged amenity=ambulance or amenity=ambulance_station... That isn't to > say we should keep doing this if nothing else has been documented or > used extensively...
Coming up with tagging schemes for stuff like this hard, because of the different ways different countries group stuff. I was recently in an ambulance in France, and chatting with the people inside I was surprised to learn that in addition to being ambulance officers they also acted as firemen: they were "sapeurs-pompiers", and were employed by the local council. They contrasted themselves with "ambulanciers" who are employed by a hospital. The right long term solution for this stuff is to use country-specific tags, (eg, in australia we could use amenity=ses_station or something), and to centrally define (in machine-readable terms) what those country-specific tags are. But I think we're a fair way from being able to implement anything like that at present. Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
