[talk-au] SES Sheds

[edodd at billiau.net]

> 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.
>

so we need
Police - list State and Federal subtypes
Ambulance - diff types
Fire - diff types incl CFA and RFS
VRA
SES
Australian Volunteer Coast Guard Association, Royal Volunteer Coastal
Patrol and VRA Marine and a few more along just the NSW Coast
so we need a nice new wiki page to list all forms of Australian Emergency
Services