Some time ago, I raised a proposal for Marine Rescue stations: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Marine_rescue. After a few weeks, I returned it to draft status, pending the resolution of the Military Bases proposal which was also going through at that time, but despite that, it’s now in use ~250 times!
One of the concerns that were raised at the time was the existence of two other, similar tags: emergency=lifeboat_station https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dlifeboat_station & also amenity=lifeboat_station https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dlifeboat_station, both of which were created by the same mapper on the same day, & neither of which were apparently ever discussed? These two tags have been used a similar number of times (400 – 450), but when I’ve looked at a number of them at random, both tags have been used together on a lot of locations e.g https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/260096274, https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/894864797, & https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/444884651. It would seem somewhat ridiculous to have three virtually identical tags describing the same thing, as well as two tags on the same POI, so I am suggesting that they all be consolidated into one tag, with the other two being deprecated. Before proceeding with that discussion though, is there any reason to tag something as both an amenity= & also emergency=? Thanks Graeme
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