[Tagging] Evacuation Routes

Eric Christensen eric at christensenplace.us
Tue May 9 04:07:23 UTC 2017


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Greetings from Maryland (USA),

Here in the USA we're getting prepared for our Hurricane Season[0].  I
worked for ten years in the disaster preparedness world and did a lot
to help people prepare for the inevitable.  With that said, I'd like
to make a recommended change to the 'evacuation_route' key[1] in hopes
of making it more useful without, hopefully, making it too complicated
for the cartographers out there.

The current tagging system is likely not being rendered by any
software out there and seems to be a one-off.  To me this *should* be
a type of route which would show direction and, perhaps, the type of
emergency when this route would be active.

This type of tagging shouldn't be specific to the USA and should be
generic enough to be globally used.

On the rendering side of things, I could see a switch being toggled
that would gray out everything but emergency routes, emergency
resources (shelters, food, water, etc), and other resources that could
be turned on individually.  One could even store evacuation points and
meeting locations on these maps making it much easier for someone to
navigate during an emergency.

Currently there are less then 5,000 implementation globally.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Eric "Sparks"


[0]
https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/emergencies/natural-disast
ers/HurricaneSeason.html
[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:evacuation_route
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