[Tagging] amenity=police

Toby Murray toby.murray at gmail.com
Wed Jul 31 23:23:50 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com>wrote:
>
>> And aote the USA the jobs of law enforcement ranger and interpretive
>> ranger have split, though both may work out of the same building.
>> Ranger stations have overlap with fire stations and police stations, but
>> seem quite distinct.
>>
>
> Is it time we had a specific tag for ranger station such as
> amenity=ranger_station? In the US, it would apply to both the NPS as well
> as some state parks.
>
>
We were just discussing the amenity tag in #osm. If we are inventing a new
tag, can we avoid using amenity? Whatever a ranger station is, it is not an
"amenity" and I would like to stop the spread of this woefully overloaded
tag. It may *have* some amenities like toilets, drinking fountains or guide
maps but it is not itself an amenity.

Toby
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