[Tagging] Possible merge of marine_rescue & lifeboat_station tags?

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Mon Nov 7 09:57:55 UTC 2022




Nov 7, 2022, 00:27 by jmapb at gmx.com:

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> On 11/6/2022 6:18 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
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>> I definitely agree that it should be emergency=, rather            than amenity=. I must also admit to a slight personal            preference for =marine_rescue :-), but the vast majority of            usage is in the UK & Western Europe, where =lifeboat            seems to be the most popular, so I'm happy to go along with            that.
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>> I'll see if there's any other comments before starting a            full RFC
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> "Lifeboat" is an ambiguous term  -- it even has a disambiguation      page on Wikipedia  which lists > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat_(shipboard)>  ahead of > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat_(rescue)>  .
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> Favoring emergency=marine_rescue seems sensible to me
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What about such stations on freshwater lakes and on rivers? Is "marine" fitting there?

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