[Tagging] Disaster response

[Warin]

On 17-Apr-17 09:55 PM, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> There was a discussion recently, though I cannot find it, about 'civil 
> defense'-like services, responding to major emergencies.
>
> They still lack an internationally suitable tag. There is an 
> Australian attempt (emergency=ses_station) that gains some 
> international interest, though it is an incomprehensible acronym for 
> anybody else. Usage is still small enough for a better value.
>
> The result of the discussion was IIRC, that different countries have 
> different organisational structures, and they are not always civil or 
> governmental organisations (might be subordinated to military for 
> example), or there might be several organisations in one country.
>
> Thus we need a tag that avoids to imply the organisational form.
>
> emergency=disaster_response
>
> comes to my mind, which is not used before and is neutral both in 
> organisation and being volunteer or not. It focuses on the purpose.
>
> The specific national service could be subtagged, such as 
> disaster_response=australian_ses or disaster_response=thw or 
> =technisches_hilfswerk in Germany. Properties, like civil or run by 
> military or an NGO, having volunteers, etc, can be subtagged.
Why not use the present operator tag to specify the organisation?
>
> The tag should only be used for stations actually providing support, 
> having technical equipment etc, not for the offices, agencies, 
> ministries that are purely organisational.
>
> Opinions?
Some method of tagging these should be provided .. so that people have a 
method available and will not use this tag as 'nothing else is available'.
office=disaster_response might be suitable?
>
> Tom
>
> PS: some potential organisations from the wiki discussion (some are 
> probably the agency and not the station):
>
>     Germany: Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe 
> (BBK) /
>              Technisches Hilfswerk THW
>     Austria: Oberösterreichischer Zivilschutzverband
>     Australia: State Emergency Service
>     Brazil: Civil defense in Brazil
>     Greece: Oberösterreichischer Zivilschutzverband (Civil Protection)
>     Ukraine: Державна служба України з надзвичайних ситуацій (State 
> Emergency Service)
>     México: Protección Civil
>     España: Protección Civil
>     Czechia: Civilní obrana
The UK?
Royal National Lifeboat Institution 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_National_Lifeboat_Institution> (RNLI)
mountain rescue, cave rescue



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