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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/11/19 18:51, Francesco Ansanelli
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<div dir="auto">Hello list,
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<div dir="auto">I don't know is anybody wrote about this before,
but I have noticed that the emergency tag changes meaning on
hospitals and the result is weird:</div>
<div dir="auto">emergency tag indicate whether an emergency
vehicle has access to the way/point, but on hospitals his
value is about emergency rooms.</div>
<div dir="auto">I cannot imagine an hospital that disallowed
access to emergency vehicles, but the editors by example
forgot about this and indicate so...</div>
<div dir="auto">To avoid any ambiguity a rename could clarify
the situation:</div>
<div dir="auto">emergency -> emergency_room</div>
<div dir="auto">On every hospital and we can assume
emergency=yes <span style="font-family:sans-serif">on them</span> (it's
hard to me to imagine a place that is emergency=no btw).</div>
<div dir="auto">What do you think?</div>
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It is not only an 'emergency room' that is required to be suitable
for emergencies. <br>
Some 'hospitals' simply cannot deal with emergencies and so
emergency=no is a good tag for them. <br>
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As we all know an emergency vehicle will not pay much attention to
stop lights etc, <br>
so if it suits them then emergency=no will not stop them calling
into a hospital. But most ambulances will already know of the
hospitals capability and so they won't be using OSM. It is the
people travelling by private vehicle who will not be aware of the
capabilities that can be caught out.<br>
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