[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Fire_Hydrant

[John F. Eldredge]

I agree that fire hydrants and fire extinguishers should be tagged differently.  While both are used for putting out fires, fire extinguishers (a) are limited to use on smaller fires, and (b) are useful by themselves, whereas you need a suitable hose in order to use a fire hydrant )and so are of use to firefighters, but not the general public).

Using the same tag for both could cost lives, by making delays in finding the necessary equipment (fire hydrant or fire extinguisher) to fight the fire in question.

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Subject :Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Fire_Hydrant
From  :mailto:deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Date  :Tue Jul 27 02:12:28 America/Chicago 2010


On 27 July 2010 15:59, S.Higashi <s_higash at mua.biglobe.ne.jp> wrote:
> How about a fire extinguisher[1]?

I don't think this is a good idea, as they are 2 completely different things...

> Could it be included to fire_hydrant tag?
> Seems the same purpose to me.
> They are equipped by local government mainly along with residential
> roads/living streets for emergency use in Japan.

A fire hydrant is usually hooked up to water mains, where as an
extinguisher has a limited reservoir of either water or some other
chemical cocktail and may be used for various purposes depending on
the type of fire and this information could be very useful, but I'd
tag them separately...

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