<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 at 14:22, Dave F via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
As emergency=ambulance_station appears to be a later invention, was <br>
there a valid reason fire_station did follow suit?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Presumably because the icon looks like a firepit. Or maybe an eternal flame. Or maybe</div><div>a flammable chemical site. So everyone goes there to sit around the firepit. Or admire</div><div>the eternal flame. Or wait to see the chemical site explode. So it's an amenity.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Joking aside, the carto people appear to have a fixed rule of "no synonyms." A very good rule</div><div>in many situations as we don't want more than one way of mapping the exact same thing.</div><div>However, it seems problematic in cases like this where there is broad agreement that we</div><div>should replace amenity=fire_station with emergency=fire_station and that the 1:1</div><div>correspondence means it could even be considered for an automated edit. It would</div><div>seem that TEMPORARILY allowing a synonym in this case would be a sensible thing</div><div>to do. Render both until editors have made the change and most occurrences in the</div><div>db have been updated, then only render emergency=fire_station.</div><div><br></div><div>There are other cases where a policy of temporarily allowing synonyms in order to</div><div>rationalizing tagging would be useful: landuse=grass vs landcover=grass comes to mind.</div><div><br></div><div>As things stand, though, emergency=fire_station doesn't render and (without a change in</div><div>policy by carto) will never render, so mappers won't use it, so you'll just have to live with</div><div>the confusion. And the further confusion from the icon being completely misleading.</div><div> </div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>