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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>16 gru 2022, 02:51 od graemefitz1@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div class="" dir="ltr">On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 at 10:59, Andy Townsend <<a href="mailto:ajt1047@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ajt1047@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div><div>doesn't explain why "amenity=lifeboat" is "deprecated". Like it
or not, this is used exactly how you'd expect:<br></div><div> <br></div><p><a target="_blank" href="https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#20/54.48811/-0.61310" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#20/54.48811/-0.61310</a><br></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>But as I've pointed out a couple of times before, by policy, OSM doesn't map mobile items<br></div><div><br></div><div>e.g <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building=houseboat" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building=houseboat</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>"
Houseboats that are moving are not mappable in OSM"<br></div><div><br></div><div>Yes, that (totally undocumented & undiscussed) tag could be either written up to specify it's the location where a lifeboat is moored, or it could be changed to amenity=lifeboat_mooring, but, is it verifiable? Can anybody walk up to that spot 24/7/365 & say Ah yes, that's the <i>George</i><i> & Mary Webb</i>? Sorry, but no they can't, as it may be elsewhere at that moment.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">In this case amenity=lifeboat is - I expect - used to map lifeboat stationing place, not<br></div><div dir="auto">lifeboat itself (it may or may be confusing enough that new tag us useful).<br></div> </body>
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