<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">sent from a phone</div>On 16. Mar 2019, at 15:53, Jan S <<a href="mailto:grimpeur78@gmail.com">grimpeur78@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">So you basically can't rely on OSM to find a police station in case of an emergency.</div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div>let us not overemphasize the emergency in this context. In an urgent emergency you would expect <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the police to c</span>ome to you rather than the opposite.</div><div><br></div><div>I agree that we should have an amenity tag for police stations (this still means many of them would be closed after office times, for example in Germany), and that amenity=police was defined so since the beginning.</div><div>And it appears that other police facilities and non public operations also bear the tag.</div><div><br></div><div>We could try to migrate those other police amenities to amenity=police_facility </div><div><br></div><div>some would better be retagged as office, but if you want a tag which more reliably states “police station”, it looks like a new subtag e.g. police=station could work.</div><div><br></div><div>There are already 22 of them ;-)</div><div><a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/police#values">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/police#values</a></div><div>Most common (the only significantly used) value for “police” is “traffic_police” (987 uses). This is a type of police, not a type of facility.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, Martin </div></div></div></body></html>