[Tagging] emergency=*

[John Smith]

On 30 July 2010 05:16, Tobias Knerr <osm at tobias-knerr.de> wrote:
> It's true that choosing a common key "emergency" makes it easier if you
> want to treat police stations and hospitals the same way in an
> application. But if you want to treat doctors and hospitals the same
> way, then it's pretty useless.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with your suggestion, but let's get one
possible thing sorted out first...

> There is no single appropriate categorization for all purposes.

Of course, there is some cross over between shops and offices...

> Therefore, categorization of features is a renderer decision and
> shouldn't be hardcoded into tagging.

That's an odd thing to say, if that were true we'd have everything as
an amenity... eg amenity=highway...