Used in conjunction with amenity=hospital emergency=yes also implies that a hospital has an Emergency Room.
For tag-related questions Taginfo and OSM Wiki are good resources: * http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dyes * http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/emergency=yes#combinations Cheers, -Jaakko -- [email protected] * Skype: jhelleranta * Mobile: +505-8845-3391 (Nicaragua) * Voice(mail) / SMS / What's app: +1-202-730-9778 * http://about.me/jaakkoh On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Richard Welty <[email protected]>wrote: > On 1/23/14 1:13 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > > What might people using the tag 'emergency=yes' have meant it to mean? > > And is it a good use? > > > > It's the #2 tag in a space that has some gems (emergency=aed and > > emergency=phone for example). But I'm mystified by the usage. 20,000 > > emergency=yes highways? > > > > > emergency=yes is an access tag, you would use it, for example, for > a u-turn on a motorway where the only permissible vehicles are > engaged in emergency response, e.g. > > access=no > emergency=yes > > richard > > -- > [email protected] > Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting > OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux > Java - Web Applications - Search > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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