[Tagging] RFC - Proposed features/emergency=lifeboat station

[Andy Townsend]

On 16/12/2022 01:51, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
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> On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 at 10:59, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     doesn't explain why "amenity=lifeboat" is "deprecated".  Like it
>     or not, this is used exactly how you'd expect:
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>     https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#20/54.48811/-0.61310
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> But as I've pointed out a couple of times before, by policy, OSM 
> doesn't map mobile items
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... and that discussion veered off (on IRC) into "things that can move 
but usually don't" as I recall.


> Yes, that (totally undocumented & undiscussed) tag could be either 
> written up to specify it's the location where a lifeboat is moored, or 
> it could be changed to amenity=lifeboat_mooring, but, is it 
> verifiable? Can anybody walk up to that spot 24/7/365 & say Ah yes, 
> that's the /George//& Mary Webb/? Sorry, but no they can't, as it may 
> be elsewhere at that moment.

Most of the time, yes they can* - 8000 launches per year between 400 
lifeboats is on average 20 per year.  If we take a guess at 8 hours per 
launch, it's there 98% of the time.

Best Regards,

Andy


* source 
https://rnli.org/what-we-do/lifeboats-and-stations/our-lifeboat-fleet 
and 
https://rnli.org/what-we-do/lifeboats-and-stations/latest-lifeboat-launches

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