[Tagging] Looking for Existing Proposal/Feature - Firearm Restrictions

[Warin]

On 11/05/19 08:53, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
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> On Fri, 10 May 2019 at 12:46, Jane Smith 
> <internetfriendly123 at gmail.com <mailto:internetfriendly123 at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
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>     Good Evening,
>
>     I am considering submitting a proposal for restrictions or
>     allowances on carrying firearms in a particular location. I
>     checked through the proposal pages and the active features pages
>     and did not see anything related to this. The Proposal Process
>     page suggested emailing this list to ensure nothing similar is
>     already in use.
>
>
> Hi Jane
>
> (Sorry, tried to send this yesterday but our internet died :-()
>
> That's an interesting one!
>
> As far as I was aware, there's no mention of firearms in OSM, but when 
> I've just looked, I've found about 20 listings (all in the US - I'm 
> guessing that's where you are?) for firearms=yes/no, so there's 
> obviously at least some interest in the idea!. This will hopefully 
> show the TagInfo 
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/firearms#overview & Overpass 
> map of them: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/ITh.
>
>     Examples of these restrictions in my area would be signs on
>     buildings prohibiting carrying firearms concealed and/or openly.
>     The signs themselves would be nodes, but the allowance or
>     restriction would apply to ways.
>
>
> Because of the mass of conflicting firearm laws in the US between 
> States, Counties, cities & building owners, I think that you'd have to 
> tie this to individual buildings, or even shop by shop?
>
> Could possibly be done as a node on the building itself, but also as 
> an extra tag against the business eg
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/305658067

It should not be a 'stand alone tag', but a tag that is applied to 
another physical feature, like a building, a shop, a stadium.
The sign is simply an indicator. E.G. OSM does not tag signs that state 
opening hours - the opening hours go on the feature.


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