<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> Similar to public fallout shelters in the US</span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">The closest evacuation center to my house has different “classifications” listed - as in what kinds disasters it is good for. this means if we are tagging evacuation sites - there needs to be some kind of usage/shelter type / disaster type data.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 1:39 AM, John Willis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnw@mac.com" target="_blank">johnw@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="gmail-"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 18, 2017, at 9:24 AM, Greg Troxel <<a href="mailto:gdt@lexort.com" target="_blank">gdt@lexort.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_-6646705961321156219Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">Another thing to think about is the planned location of shelters, and to</span><br style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">tag places that are pre-designated as possible shelters</span></div></blockquote><br></div></span><div>if a region or a country has designated evacuation sites/refuges/shelters/ for evacuees to use, mapping them with some granularity might be very useful. </div><div><br></div><div>Similar to public fallout shelters in the US, many public places in Japan have signs designating them as a "place of refuge” if an earthquake/tsunami forces you to leave your house. They are usually open-air places (school yards, parks, etc) to minimize the chance one could be unusable from a severe earthquake and inevitable fires afterwards in cities. They are often places with a large covered shelter (a gymnasium or other reinforced steel building that could be used as shelter from the weather), such as a middle school, in the rural areas. </div><div><br></div><div>The closest evacuation center to my house has different “classifications” listed - as in what kinds disasters it is good for. this means if we are tagging evacuation sites - there needs to be some kind of usage/shelter type / disaster type data. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">I have found the tagging for this type facility lacking. I was specifically looking at this for tornado and hurricane shelters, and I wrote up a little something and was planning to post it at a future date. Maybe it contributes to the conversation (or maybe not).</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">I am looking for a tagging scheme for public and semi-public (business/industry) places of refuge during a severe wind event (tornado or hurricane).</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">The United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) calls these "safe rooms for tornado and hurricanes". (Cyclones and typhoons are synonyms for hurricanes.) Terms for classifying this might be "storm shelter" or "severe wind safe room" might be a good way to classify this.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">These are places that people go to for a limited amount while there a threat is predicted/present. For tornadoes people go to these places for just a few hours, and for hurricanes people might be a there for a couple days.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Safe room can also mean panic room, which is a reinforce portion close off portion of a house to occupants seek refuge from intruders breaking in.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">(If people are displaced, they will typically have to relocate to a temporary disaster shelter.)</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Existing features that are slightly similar:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">1. amenity=shelter with shelter_type=weather_shelter is for a wilderness hut to get out of the rain or a thunderstorm.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">2. amenity=social_facility + social_facility=shelter, which is a shelters for the homeless, refugees, and domestic violence cases. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">The weather shelter tagging seems wholly inadequate, and also amenity=shelter includes picnic shelters, which I'd be mad if I ended up at a picnic shelter during a tornado.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Some of these are single use facilities are single purpose. Others are multipurpose facilities that are within other spaces such as classroom/meeting space it may be within a school or church. The space is open for a place of refuge when there is a weather threat.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Other information about the pertinent information to tag about the shelter is operator, address, toilet, kitchen, access=public/private, power, phone, radio, tv, communications equipment, wheelchair accessibility, and more? For the US, it might be nice to tag if it meets the FEMA P-361 standards.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Other similar types of shelter that I know little about are war/bomb/fallout shelters. Also, there are fallout shelters, but in the US, these are almost forgotten Cold War relics.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Micah Cochran</span><br></div><br>
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