[Tagging] emergency=lifeguard

[Bryan Housel]

I was looking at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:emergency <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:emergency> today.

We have too many tags for different kinds of lifeguards.  This is too confusing.
I don’t want to have to show all these choices to iD users.

tag	uses
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dlifeguard_base <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency=lifeguard_base>	202
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dlifeguard_place <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency=lifeguard_place>	39
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dlifeguard_platform <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency=lifeguard_platform>	24
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dlifeguard_tower <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency=lifeguard_tower>	424
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dwater_rescue_station <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency=water_rescue_station>	197


More details here:
https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/4918#issuecomment-374611561 <https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/4918#issuecomment-374611561>


Let’s just use one tag `emergency=lifeguard`
We can change this before the tags gain too much more traction (a few hundred uses is not very many)

If people really want to map whatever the lifeguard sits on, they can use a different tag for that.
`lifeguard_type=platform`  or `tower` or something.


Thanks, Bryan

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