[Tagging] Emergency shelters

[Eric Christensen]

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On 09/07/2017 11:24 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> do you recall why emergency:social_facility=shelter was chosen as a tag,
> rather than a simple "emergency=shelter"? Because social_facility
> shelter in osm is used with a different meaning, so it seems quite odd.

I thought it was an odd choice, as well, but once I thought about it, it
sort of made sense.

The definition of a social_facility is "a feature that provides a social
service."[0]  If you go further down, a social_facility=shelter is
defined as "[a] facility that provides temporary sleeping facilities or
refuge from exposure to the environment."  Isn't that what an emergency
shelter is doing?

- --Eric

[0] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:social_facility
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