<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 09:23, Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 23:29, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I run into <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dcoast_guard" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dcoast_guard</a><br></div><div>and despite that I have basically zero experience with such objects <br></div><div>I am pretty sure that this description (and an old proposal) has a<br></div><div>problematic definition<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep.</div><div><br></div><div>Of a lot of interest to me, because I'm a member of a volunteer Marine Rescue ("Coast Guard") unit. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I remember this being discussed previously with the same dilemma - Coast Guard means different things in different places, from an armed military force (that also has a rescue function) to a strictly volunteer Marine Rescue unit, with no official powers of any sort.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe the existing amenity=coast_guard & emergency
=coast_guard
tags both need to be deprecated in favour of two new tags: <br></div><div><br></div><div>landuse=military + military=coast_guard: Base for a military / para-military force intended for protection of a country's coastal waters against enemy military forces, smugglers, terrorists etc, & which usually also has a marine rescue function. eg United States Coast Guard, Australian Border Force (& others). This would render as the standard military area; & <br></div><div><br></div><div>emergency=marine_rescue: Base for a group, frequently non-Government / volunteer only, dedicated to the rescue of vessels / sailors at sea. eg British RNLI, Australian Volunteer Coast Guard, Volunteer Marine Rescue
(& others). A good render would be a simple "SOS"! Alternatively, these could be mapped under the existing amenity=rescue_station tag, but that tag itself should come under the emergency= heading.<br></div><div><br></div><div>There's currently about 150 x
amenity=coast_guard, & only ~25 x
emergency=coast_guard, tags in use, so not a major problem to go through & correct them. There are a <i>lot</i> more rescue bases that should be tagged though, in the order of 300 in Australia alone!</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>100% agree.</div></div></div>