[talk-au] Fire Station Operators

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Sun Jan 5 10:15:27 UTC 2020


There are some 944 of them in the data base .. so they should be 
documented.

I'd be pleased to add a few more, along with the suggested tags.

On 05/01/20 21:02, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> Okay with me though it would be good if that tag was documented at 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building
>
> On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 20:15, Sebastian S. <mapping at consebt.de 
> <mailto:mapping at consebt.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>     Similar to schools the building should be tagged
>
>     building=fire_station
>
>     See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=fire_station
>
>
>     On 5 January 2020 4:55:26 pm AEDT, Andrew Harvey
>     <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com <mailto:andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Yes, this is
>         https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#One_feature.2C_one_OSM_element,
>         there should only be one amenity=fire_station for a single
>         fire station.
>
>         Where possible I prefer to trace the site boundary as this can
>         be useful information and put all the tags on that, and then
>         just have a way inside it with building=yes an none of the
>         fire station tags.
>
>         But I think it's also fine to just have a node, or to just
>         have the building without the site as interim solutions or for
>         fire stations where the extent is just the building which
>         don't have a yard.
>
>         On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 15:27, David Wales
>         <daviewales at disroot.org <mailto:daviewales at disroot.org>> wrote:
>
>             Somewhat related to this.
>
>             Camden West Rural Fire Service has both a traced building,
>             *and* a traced site border.
>             Both are currently tagged with amenity=fire_station.
>
>             The building has the rest of the identifying tags.
>
>             I feel that it makes sense to only have one feature tagged
>             with amenity=fire_station, and the rest of the tags.
>             Should this be the building, or the site border?
>
>             See link below:
>             https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=id&way=724460466#map=20/-34.05818/150.67674
>
>             Regards,
>             David Wales
>
>             On 4/1/20 2:39 pm, Andrew Harvey wrote:
>>             On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 at 14:14, Sebastian Spiess
>>             <mapping at consebt.de <mailto:mapping at consebt.de>> wrote:
>>
>>                 Andrew,
>>                 I've done one. Just clarifying regarding the branch.
>>
>>                 branch  =   Narrabeen Fire Station
>>                 name   =  Fire and Rescue NSW Station 068 Narrabeen
>>
>>
>>             I can't see clearly from Mapillary what the singe looks
>>             like, but branch should be just "Narrabeen", without the
>>             "Fire Station" words. Then you could still have
>>             name=Narrabeen Fire Station.
>>
>>                 Is this how you suggested? Before the branch tag was
>>                 the name.
>>
>>                 I've also added
>>                 building =    fire_station
>>
>>                 https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/79179815
>>
>>
>>

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