Agreed - don't change the meaning. If additional information is required
- and I'm not sure why - then additional police=* tag is a good
alternate to the Amenity tag.
TonyS
On 15/03/2019 06:55, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
Please don’t change the established meaning of amenity=police; it
should keep meaning “a public police station”.
Most database users are only going to be interested in public police
stations, that’s why we’ve gotten by for over 10 years with just
amenity=police.
It’s fine if the police=* tag isn’t I’m used by all renderers and
database users at first, because only some types of maps and databases
need additional info.
Joseph
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 3:39 PM Jan S <grimpeu...@gmail.com
<mailto:grimpeu...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Am 15. März 2019 00:19:22 MEZ schrieb althio
<althio.fo...@gmail.com <mailto:althio.fo...@gmail.com>>:
>Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com
<mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > If this seems viable, I would expand the proposal by a migration
>proposal from amenity=police to police=station
>>
>> I don’t think we should abandon amenity=police and it will
likely not
>happen unless people tag so many different things with the tag
that it
>becomes useless. My primary interest is in specifying the kind of
>police and facility, a generic amenity=police on top of that does not
>harm. If the new scheme becomes so widespread that every police
station
>also has a more specific police=* tag, we can still decide to remove
>the amenity=police tags.
That sounds reasonable. So we'd keep amenity=police as the general
indicator of police facilities and use police=* as a sub-tag to
specify the type of facility. The current wiki page for
amenity=police would consequently move to police=station and
amenity=police would be reduced to indicate that the tag is used
for all police facilities (and maybe hold a list of what's
considered police by country).
I'll adapt the proposal.
>There is no need to abandon amenity=police for public facing police
>stations.
That, on the contrary, doesn't seem consequent to me. We'd end up
with amenity=police and police=* as main tags for different types
of police facilities. I fear that that would be confusing and
cause inconsistent mapping.
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