[OSM-talk] [Tagging] emergency=*

[SomeoneElse]

Ross Scanlon wrote:
> Total time 6 minutes
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> Hundreds of hours, yeah right.
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So you've also updated every user of mkgmap who uses a customised style 
file too?  That should add a few to the "20 or so" (or whatever number 
were mentioned before).  Each change is of the same order as the one 
that you've described above, but when multiplied by the number of users 
affected it's much, much greater.

The worst of it is there was no warning - none of the stuff here seems 
to have been followed:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits/Code_of_Conduct

We've seen recently how people responding to disasters have used OSM 
data on handheld devices - someone right now could quite possibly be 
using such a map to try and deal with, say, the floods in Pakistan.  If 
that map is suddenly missing hospitals what are they to do?

Cheers,
Andy