[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Fire_Hydrant

[Peteris Krisjanis]

2010/7/27 John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>:
> On 27 July 2010 22:33, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> While it may be useful to tag these things on OSM, I don't think
> anyone could or should be using OSM for life threatening emergency
> help in any way shape or form.
>

Why not? As any other map, it has to be taken with piece of salt, but
if data are collected honestly and firefighters knows it, it can be
very valuable. Even more - it would be nice if firefighters would use
OSM as reference for themselves (having osm file copy somewhere of
course).

Cheers,
Peter.