DaveF, reloading the database could be done more often, but it does take time and server resources, and everyone is a volunteer. People can help by donating money to the OSMF to help run the servers, or donating time to help improve the openstreetmap.org website infrastructure.
At Openstreetmap-carto there are over 400 open issues (https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues), and a particular request is more likely to happen if a contributor volunteers to do the work. In this case the first step would be to decide which tags under `emergency=` should be treated as polygons when mapped as closed ways, and then submitting a PR (pull request) to add these for the next database reload, which might happen soon, if enough people are interested in making it happen. - Joseph Eisenberg On 11/11/19, Dave F via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > On 11/11/2019 02:20, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: >> If this is about Openstreetmap-carto, there is now an open issue: >> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/3968 - note >> that rendering area features in the "emergency=" key, like this, would >> require reloading the database on the openstreetmap.org servers. > > > it wasn't about rendering really, it was just the illogical use of keys > making it more awkward for all database users. > > I gave up on referring to anything relating to OSM-carto issues for > precisely the reason you highlight - to render > emergency=ambulance_station It requires a database reload which is only > performed "*every few years*". #Ridiculous > > > DaveF > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
