[Tagging] emergency=*

[Dave F.]

  On 30/07/2010 08:53, Peteris Krisjanis wrote:
>> Most ambulance stations here usually aren't joined to a hospital,
>> patient transport is another matter but they usually aren't used for
>> emergencies. Some stations aren't even close to a hospital, like this
>> one near me, it's about 6km from the nearest hospital:
>>
>> station: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/61848194
>> hospital: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/41130362
> Well, that's another reason to tag them separately, right? So we can
> have amenity=hospital and emergency=ambulance_station

I just don't see an ambulance/fire station as an emergency. I mean, if 
you fall down and injure yourself you don't try & get to the station you 
'phone up & get an ambulance to come to you.

I see them as amenities & will continue to tag them as such. It's seems 
wrong to have fire as amenity &  ambulance as emergency.

The word emergency is also an adjective & which is subjective &  as such 
should be avoided in the use of tags. Just look at historic to see what 
a mess adjectives bring.