[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Emergency=Rescue Stations

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 22. Dec 2020, at 09:42, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it's fine to use marine here, even though it may not strictly be at sea and could be related to inland waters. So long as this is clearly stated in the wiki documentation. It's not always possible to have OSM tags match how the term is commonly used.
> 
> Water rescue could be confused with the lifeguard tags which are for rescuing swimmers.


At least for inland water rescue there is probably significant overlap with rescuing swimmers. Where do we draw the line, if at all? I am referring to the German situation, with DLRG being a volunteer driven organization (half a million members, only 94 paid staff, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Life_Saving_Association )

similarly there’s also a water division of the German Red cross, which also provides rescuing swimmers as well as boats and emergency response units.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserwacht

Sometimes emergency response on water is performed by the fire department (e.g. divers)

Cheers Martin 
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