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

Marc_marc marc_marc at mailo.com
Fri Dec 16 07:52:07 UTC 2022


Le 16.12.22 à 08:30, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging a écrit :
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> 16 gru 2022, 02:51 od graemefitz1 at gmail.com:
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>     On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 at 10:59, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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 <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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>     e.g https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building=houseboat
>     <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building=houseboat>
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>     " Houseboats that are moving are not mappable in OSM"
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>     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.
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> In this case amenity=lifeboat is - I expect - used to map lifeboat 
> stationing place, not lifeboat itself

of course, like marina doesn't map boats but the mooring area






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