<html><head></head><body>Color-coding is likely used by the fire department to signify matters such as how much water-flow is available. I don't know how standardized these color codes are, however.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On February 27, 2014 1:36:48 PM CST, Andreas Labres <list@lab.at> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Richard,<br /><br />fire_hydrant:type should remain unchanged, as this is negotiated with local fire<br />departments here in Austria (as well as Germany). At least this is true for<br />pillar and underground, those are most common and most important.<br /><br />Then there are fixed suction points, either from a pond or from the ground water<br />(well). There is no ideal tagging for this available, this "pond" may be adjustable.<br /><br />Things like the color don't make that much sense to me, is this one<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.scardo.net/typo/fileadmin/hydrantderwoche/20121125_WeinWasser_Ai.jpg">http://www.scardo.net/typo/fileadmin/hydrantderwoche/20121125_WeinWasser_Ai.jpg</a><br /><br />blue? or stainless steel? But everybody here recognizes this as a hydrant,<br />whatever color that is.<br /><br />Hydrant class may make sense to you, this is what we use the diameter for (most<br />common are 80 and 100). Just to give you an idea how those are
used (really used<br />by the local fire department there):<br /><br /> <a href="http://openfiremap.org/?zoom=17&lat=48.12184&lon=16.33877">http://openfiremap.org/?zoom=17&lat=48.12184&lon=16.33877</a><br /><br />Other optional parameters as you like, they don't make that much sense to us here.<br /><br />/al<br />(from Vienna, Austria)<br /><br /><hr /><br />Tagging mailing list<br />Tagging@openstreetmap.org<br /><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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