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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/03/19 03:15, Martin Koppenhoefer
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On 16. Mar 2019, at 15:53, Jan S <<a
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<div dir="ltr">So you basically can't rely on OSM to find a
police station in case of an emergency.</div>
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<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>
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If you are being assaulted, it is better to run towards the police
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<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>
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<div>We could try to migrate those other police amenities to
amenity=police_facility </div>
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<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>
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Why have amenity=police_facility where that too will have to have
sub tags .. possibly more police=* values? <br>
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Why not simply accept the key police=* and be done with the
intermediate step of amenity=police or amenity=police_facility or
amenity=police_office ro amenity=police_garage etc... ?<br>
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<div>There are already 22 of them ;-)</div>
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Any if the key police=* how many will then become used? <br>
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<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>
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A 'type' of police in some police facility. <br>
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