[Tagging] emergency=yes

[Ilpo Järvinen]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Richard Welty wrote:
> On 1/23/14 1:13 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> > What might people using the tag 'emergency=yes' have meant it to mean?
> > And is it a good use?
> >
> > It's the #2 tag in a space that has some gems (emergency=aed and
> > emergency=phone for example).  But I'm mystified by the usage.  20,000
> > emergency=yes highways?
> >
> >
> emergency=yes is an access tag, you would use it, for example, for
> a u-turn on a motorway where the only permissible vehicles are
> engaged in emergency response, e.g.
> 
> access=no
> emergency=yes

Besides that, here in Finland some of the service ways to residential 
buildings are designated as "rescue road" ("pelastustie" in Finnish) and 
we've marked those with emergency=yes. There even used to be a specific 
sign for these roads [1] (it was recently changed though so that a combo 
of normal no-parking sign and text sign with "Pelastustie" is to be used 
instead, although the old sign can be used for its "lifetime").

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 i.

[1] http://shop.eurofire.fi/tuotekuvat/large/6198.jpg