On 2/27/14 2:36 PM, Andreas Labres wrote: > Richard, > > fire_hydrant:type should remain unchanged, as this is negotiated with local > fire > departments here in Austria (as well as Germany). At least this is true for > pillar and underground, those are most common and most important. i now am proposing that pillar be supplemented with dry_barrel and wet_barrel, and that pillar itself remain unchanged. > Then there are fixed suction points, either from a pond or from the ground > water > (well). There is no ideal tagging for this available, this "pond" may be > adjustable. i'm proposing separating water source out because different types of delivery device (pillars, pipes) show up in these cases in the US, i don't think that the water source and the delivery device should be conflated into one tag. > Things like the color don't make that much sense to me, is this one > > > http://www.scardo.net/typo/fileadmin/hydrantderwoche/20121125_WeinWasser_Ai.jpg > > blue? or stainless steel? But everybody here recognizes this as a hydrant, > whatever color that is. color may be more relevant in the US. > > Hydrant class may make sense to you, this is what we use the diameter for > (most > common are 80 and 100). Just to give you an idea how those are used (really > used > by the local fire department there): > > http://openfiremap.org/?zoom=17&lat=48.12184&lon=16.33877 some US departments use the main diameter; others use class. there is no direct translation between class and diameter, nor is there a direct translation between pressure and class. > Other optional parameters as you like, they don't make that much sense to us > here. > > fundamentally i'm arguing for latitude to match local conditions.
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