[OSM-talk] If a school is a shelter when a disaster happens...

[Eric Christensen]

On Thursday, December 31, 2015 07:38:55 AM Dongpo Deng wrote:
> Hi Maarteen and Maning,
> 
> Thank you guys for comments.
> 
> I agree with Marteen's opinion. The social_facility is difficult to be
> applied for emergency. social_facility = shelter seems mostly to be used
> for homeless people or refugees [1]. Thus, the wiki page of social_facility
> = shelter [2] is really confused.
> 
> Maning's suggestion is great! I will recommend Taiwanese mappers to
> use evacuation_center=yes
> for this case. It's also good for regional tag consistency.

Wouldn't emergency=shelter be better in this case?  I like the idea of keeping 
all emergency-related objects tagged with emergency=* to make them easier to 
find.

--Eric