[OSM-talk] [Tagging] emergency=*

Kevin Peat kevin at kevinpeat.com
Fri Jul 30 16:54:14 BST 2010


Where the same thing is being tagged in different ways then by all means
spend your energy trying to unify them as that ulitmately benefits all data
consumers and reduces scope for mapper confusion.

In the case of hospital or fire_station though I don't see the point of
these changes. In these cases the "amenity" conveys no meaning, it is the
"hospital" that does that. If you change it to "emergency" (or whatever)
that still conveys no meaning in itself so what is the point?

Kevin




On 30 July 2010 13:40, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just to drag things back on topic, so far most claims seem to be vague
> and generalised, however the original proposal about shifting police
> and fire into an emergency category doesn't seem to have many/any of
> the draw backs of most POIs most people are going to search for most
> of the time.
>
> Suppose things did move forward initially with dual tagging with a 3,
> 6 or even 12 month time frame, most databases would need to be
> reimported in that time frame because vacuuming seems to take as long
> or longer than reimporting.
>
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