On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:19:01 +1000, John Smith wrote: > On 28 July 2010 13:51, Richard Welty > <rwe...@averillpark.net> wrote: >> there is a whole suite of emergency related things that are not >> currently handled, for example, in the US, EMS services are frequently >> housed separately from fire departments and there's no tag codified for >> that at present that i know of. > > People usually default to amenity=* when all else fails. > > 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... > > We also have SES (State Emergency Service) which is a volunteer > organisation that helps during all other types of natural disasters and > emergencies not covered by the other 3, like when roofs are blown off, > or flooding traps people and animals etc...
A thought occurs with this... what about the already existing use of "emergency" as a specific access key, as in "access=no, emergency=yes" for a fire gate? _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
