<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Used in conjunction with amenity=hospital emergency=yes also implies that a hospital has an Emergency Room.<br><br>For tag-related questions Taginfo and OSM Wiki are good resources:<br>* <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dyes">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dyes</a><br>
* <a href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/emergency=yes#combinations">http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/emergency=yes#combinations</a><br><br></div>Cheers,<br></div>-Jaakko<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Richard Welty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rwelty@averillpark.net" target="_blank">rwelty@averillpark.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 1/23/14 1:13 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:<br>
> What might people using the tag 'emergency=yes' have meant it to mean?<br>
> And is it a good use?<br>
><br>
> It's the #2 tag in a space that has some gems (emergency=aed and<br>
> emergency=phone for example). But I'm mystified by the usage. 20,000<br>
> emergency=yes highways?<br>
><br>
><br>
</div></div>emergency=yes is an access tag, you would use it, for example, for<br>
a u-turn on a motorway where the only permissible vehicles are<br>
engaged in emergency response, e.g.<br>
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access=no<br>
emergency=yes<br>
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