On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 14:07 -0500, Richard Welty wrote: > i've started drafting a proposal for some tags to extend the > fire_hydrant tagging system. > i have a question for the non-US mappers...
In the UK, fire hydrants are not the prominent feature they are in the US and Canada. Here they are metal covers in the road, or pavement. They are marked by a small sign, which specifies the distance from the sign to the hydrant. Not something we will find easy to map. I cannot think of the location of any in my hometown, although they will be there somewhere. The fire brigade will know exactly where they are. Its not something we can easily map completely, bound to miss some. They certainly does not have the navigational significance it does in North America where you can describe a house as near the fire hydrant. Can't help further, although I have heard inches used to specify the size of a water main. Phil (trigpoint) _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
