On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:43:38 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:19 PM, John Smith > <[email protected]> wrote: >> In Australia the ambulance service is a completely different >> organisation to fire and police and I can almost bet some would be >> tagged amenity=ambulance or amenity=ambulance_station... That isn't to >> say we should keep doing this if nothing else has been documented or >> used extensively... > > Coming up with tagging schemes for stuff like this hard, because of the > different ways different countries group stuff. I was recently in an > ambulance in France, and chatting with the people inside I was surprised > to learn that in addition to being ambulance officers they also acted as > firemen: they were "sapeurs-pompiers", and were employed by the local > council. They contrasted themselves with "ambulanciers" who are employed > by a hospital.
We have the same thing in the United States. "Fire & Rescue" as opposed to "ambulance service." Both carry emergency medical technicians, but the former are almost always trained firefighters as well, and the latter is almost always a privately owned contractor to the city. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
