These are different things, and the differentiation should definitely not simply thrown away.
Though I’m not fundamentally opposed to making it a hierarchical tag along the lines of: emergency=lifeguard lifeguard=base/place/platform/tower Also, water_rescue_station is probably identical to lifeguard_base All the usual arguments for and against trying to change tags “by decree” apply… From: Bryan Housel <bhou...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, 11 June 2018 14:22 To: osm-tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> Subject: [Tagging] emergency=lifeguard I was looking at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:emergency today. We have too many tags for different kinds of lifeguards. This is too confusing. I don’t want to have to show all these choices to iD users. tag uses <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency=lifeguard_base> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dlifeguard_base 202 <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency=lifeguard_place> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dlifeguard_place 39 <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency=lifeguard_platform> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dlifeguard_platform 24 <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency=lifeguard_tower> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dlifeguard_tower 424 <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency=water_rescue_station> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aemergency%3Dwater_rescue_station 197 More details here: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/4918#issuecomment-374611561 Let’s just use one tag `emergency=lifeguard` We can change this before the tags gain too much more traction (a few hundred uses is not very many) If people really want to map whatever the lifeguard sits on, they can use a different tag for that. `lifeguard_type=platform` or `tower` or something. Thanks, Bryan
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