On 17-Apr-17 09:55 PM, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
There was a discussion recently, though I cannot find it, about 'civil
defense'-like services, responding to major emergencies.
They still lack an internationally suitable tag. There is an
Australian attempt (emergency=ses_station) that gains some
international interest, though it is an incomprehensible acronym for
anybody else. Usage is still small enough for a better value.
The result of the discussion was IIRC, that different countries have
different organisational structures, and they are not always civil or
governmental organisations (might be subordinated to military for
example), or there might be several organisations in one country.
Thus we need a tag that avoids to imply the organisational form.
emergency=disaster_response
comes to my mind, which is not used before and is neutral both in
organisation and being volunteer or not. It focuses on the purpose.
The specific national service could be subtagged, such as
disaster_response=australian_ses or disaster_response=thw or
=technisches_hilfswerk in Germany. Properties, like civil or run by
military or an NGO, having volunteers, etc, can be subtagged.
Why not use the present operator tag to specify the organisation?
The tag should only be used for stations actually providing support,
having technical equipment etc, not for the offices, agencies,
ministries that are purely organisational.
Opinions?
Some method of tagging these should be provided .. so that people have a
method available and will not use this tag as 'nothing else is available'.
office=disaster_response might be suitable?
Tom
PS: some potential organisations from the wiki discussion (some are
probably the agency and not the station):
Germany: Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe
(BBK) /
Technisches Hilfswerk THW
Austria: Oberösterreichischer Zivilschutzverband
Australia: State Emergency Service
Brazil: Civil defense in Brazil
Greece: Oberösterreichischer Zivilschutzverband (Civil Protection)
Ukraine: Державна служба України з надзвичайних ситуацій (State
Emergency Service)
México: Protección Civil
España: Protección Civil
Czechia: Civilní obrana
The UK?
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_National_Lifeboat_Institution> (RNLI)
mountain rescue, cave rescue
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