[OSM-talk] hospital with emergency=yes/no

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    there was a proposal on the Wiki about two years ago about a
> possible extra tag "emergency" for hospitals, to signal whether they
> have an A&E (or ER, U.S.) facility. The proposal was voted through at
> the time but there were procedural doubts (something like 5 pro and 1
> contra vote or so) and the proposal remained in limbo and was recently
> flagged "abandoned" by User:Chriscf.
>
> Meanwhile, since the "emergency" tag obviously makes a lot of sense, it
> has been used about 80 times in conjunction with hospitals in Europe.
>
> I'll therefore move that on to the Map Features page unless someone has
> a good reason against it.
>
> See here for details of the old proposal:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Hospital:_Emergency
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>

What about a possible "emergency" access tag? It could cause a name
conflict. At the least, the tag could be vague if it appears separate from a
hospital node. What about "emergency_service" or "emergency_department" or
"emergency_room"?

Karl
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