In Nashville, Tennessee, USA, where I live, there aren't any ambulances based out of hospitals. The ambulances that handle emergency calls are all operated by the city fire department, and are based at fire stations. There are also commercial ambulance services, based out of various locations, but they handle matters such as transporting patients from one hospital to another.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [Tagging] emergency=* >From :mailto:[email protected] Date :Thu Jul 29 22:58:25 America/Chicago 2010 On 30 July 2010 06:44, Peteris Krisjanis <[email protected]> wrote: > I second this. Emergency namespace must have definitely essential > things, but not all things. emergency=ambulance_station is definitely > right, but not emergency=hospital. It rises interesting question > though - I would suggest to tag emergency=ambulance_station (as node) > separately from hospital, as sometimes hospitals are very huge and it > is very important sometimes to *know* where actual ambulance is. Most ambulance stations here usually aren't joined to a hospital, patient transport is another matter but they usually aren't used for emergencies. Some stations aren't even close to a hospital, like this one near me, it's about 6km from the nearest hospital: station: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/61848194 hospital: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/41130362 _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
