Seven weeks after the 2nd "vote" ([1]) started about the best tag for defibrillators, we get the following results:
10 for "emergency=aed" 1 for "emergency=AED" 24 for "emergency=defibrillator" 4 for "emergency=automated_external_defibrillator" The new "emergency=defibrillator" is leading. The feedbacks indicate that the documentation should clarify its default usage (reserved for 'automated and external defibrillators'). In other cases, defibrillators are normally not accessible to the public. But just in case someone is going to map such devices, we should add a subtag like e.g. "defibrillator=manual" (+"access=no"). Something I can add in the wiki when it's moved properly out of the proposal section. But more important for me, the discussions show that "aed" is more popular and known in some countries where, in opposite, it is completely unknown in others. Either it's translated to the local "defibrillator" word or is known with a different abbreviation like "dea" or "dae". The tag "defibrillator" is probably more understandable and less error-prone internationaly but not in some countries where "aed" would be better. That's why I'm considering if we could accept in the futur both values "aed" and "defibrillator" equally and document them as such in the wiki. But editors presets should give the preference to the more international version "defibrillator". Your opinion ? Pieren [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/automated_external_defibrillator#Voting_.282nd.29 _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
