[Tagging] Tag government equals emergency defintion

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

During discussions on one of the proposals that finished up as
emergency=water_rescue (
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_talk:Emergency%3Dlifeboat_station#Use_on_Rescue-related_sites),
there was suggestion of office=government + government=transportation +
emergency=control_centre for those establishments which control emergency
operations, rather than house emergency workers e.g.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/267835828

I have thought about documenting a proposal for that but haven't got to it

Thanks

Graeme


On Mon, 15 May 2023 at 22:00, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

> > The places (stations etc) where the emergency response come from would
> > not be an 'office'; "An office is a place of business where
> > administrative or professional work is carried out. "  e.g. lawyers,
> > accountants, records,
>
> In the US we have the concept of "Emergency Management Agency" which is
> at least partly not something like firefighters/ambulance/police.  These
> exist at federal, state, county and local levels.  They more or less does
> three things:
>
>   planning and training for future emergencies.  Creation of "Local
>   Emergency Plan" documents.  Coordinating that lots of people have
>   taken a dizzying array of classes.  Perhaps hosting classes.
>
>   operating an Emergency Operations Center where command staff decide
>   what various resources are going to do during an emergency.
>
>   has some staff who function more or less like firefighters in that
>   they go to locations where emergency services are needed and do urban
>   search and rescue, swift water rescue, damage assessment
>
>
> The first one is definitely office=government government=emergency.  I
> think the second one is too.
>
> A facility that houses equipment that personnel from the third case use
> as a response base feels like emergency=ses_station.
>
> Sometimes there are facilities that do all three.  There is a federal
> facility in New England that is at least both 2&3 and surely they must
> do 1.
>
>
> Overall I think I'm agreeing with Warin here - some functions of "Civil
> Defense" (as it used to be called before that was politically incorrect)
> are office functions, and some are conceptually similar to fire/rescue
> departments.
>
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