[Tagging] Tag government equals emergency defintion

[Warin]

On 16/5/23 08:22, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
> 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
>
Don't 'like' the 'transportation' as there is no transportation function 
at these offices.

office=government

government=emergency


There is already an emergency key .. overloaded with values

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Emergency_facilities_and_amenities

I suppose a few more would not be out of the question?

emergency=control_centre/administration ???


> I have thought about documenting a proposal for that but haven't got to it
>
>
Too many things on the ' to do' list. Me too.
>
> 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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