[talk-au] SES Sheds

[John Smith]

2009/12/26  <edodd at billiau.net>:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Emergency_service
> where the discussion page notes that we can't "just change" existing
> amenity tags.

They aren't set in stone and the highway=path supporters have been
going about changing lots of stuff, so if we think there is enough of
a reason to warrant it we can do likewise.

> emergency_service=technical has no usage in Australia
> and checking the unreferenced wikipedia page
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service
> technical doesn't fit SES duties

I thought the same before, but wasn't 100% sure on that.

> nothing on that page fits normal storm/tempest/flood work which is always
> SES, and it dumps rescue in with fire, which is a major unresolved
> discussion in Australia, where rescue can be police, fire, ambulance, ses,
> vra (maybe more) for various historical and political reasons.

In the US, the fire dept runs the ambulances, where as we have our own
organisations for ambulances.