[HOT] Tagging evacuation centers

[Dale Kunce]

I like 'evacuation_center=yes' that way it fits more with the global
context and can be used to denote facilities that are sometimes evac
centers as is the case in most of the world.



On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Paul Uithol <paul.uithol at hotosm.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Something that recently came up in Tanzania in discussions with municipals
> officials and the Tanzanian Red Cross Society is mapping of proposed
> evacuation centers.
>
> I've found some text on this on the talk-us list (
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2016-February/015874.html),
> where it's noted the `evacuation_center` tag is being used in the
> Philippines, but this appears to be a broader issue. A complicating
> factor is that in Dar (as in other places, as noted in the other thread) most
> of these places have other primary purposed (schools, playgrounds, etc).
>
> Has anyone encountered this in other contexts as well, or used another tag
> in a different locations perhaps? Would be good to have a
> documented/standard way of tagging these I'd say, would enable them to show
> up on the HDM style and presets as well?
>
> best,
>
> Paul
>
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