[Tagging] emergency=lifeguard

[Andrew Harvey]

> Also, water_rescue_station is probably identical to lifeguard_base


Agree based on the description given at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency%3Dwater_rescue_station it
sounds like lifeguard_base.


Just based on the tag name I thought it meant something like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_guard. The wikipedia page seems to
indicate coast_guard is a common term internationally (even though many of
the agencies worldwide aren't known as the "Coast Guard", it seems like
it's common enough for emergency=coast_guard.


I wonder if any of the current water_rescue_station's are really coast
guards?


On 11 June 2018 at 15:04, <osm.tagging at thorsten.engler.id.au> wrote:

> These are different things, and the differentiation should definitely not
> simply thrown away.
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> Though I’m not fundamentally opposed to making it a hierarchical tag along
> the lines of:
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> emergency=lifeguard
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> lifeguard=base/place/platform/tower
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> Also, water_rescue_station is probably identical to lifeguard_base
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> All the usual arguments for and against trying to change tags “by decree”
> apply…
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> *From:* Bryan Housel <bhousel at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, 11 June 2018 14:22
> *To:* osm-tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
> *Subject:* [Tagging] emergency=lifeguard
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> I was looking at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:emergency today.
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> We have too many tags for different kinds of lifeguards.  This is too
> confusing.
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> I don’t want to have to show all these choices to iD users.
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> *tag*
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> *uses*
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dlifeguard_base
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency=lifeguard_base>
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> 202
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dlifeguard_place
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency=lifeguard_place>
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> 39
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dlifeguard_platform
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency=lifeguard_platform>
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> 24
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dlifeguard_tower
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency=lifeguard_tower>
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> 424
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dwater_rescue_station
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency=water_rescue_station>
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> 197
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> More details here:
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> https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/4918#issuecomment-374611561
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> Let’s just use one tag *`emergency=lifeguard`*
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> We can change this before the tags gain too much more traction (a few
> hundred uses is not very many)
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> If people really want to map whatever the lifeguard sits on, they can use
> a different tag for that.
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> `lifeguard_type=platform`  or `tower` or something.
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> Thanks, Bryan
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