On 17/03/19 03:15, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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On 16. Mar 2019, at 15:53, Jan S <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
So you basically can't rely on OSM to find a police station in case
of an emergency.
let us not overemphasize the emergency in this context. In an urgent
emergency you would expect the police to come to you rather than the
opposite.
If you are being assaulted, it is better to run towards the police
rather than away.
I agree that we should have an amenity tag for police stations (this
still means many of them would be closed after office times, for
example in Germany), and that amenity=police was defined so since the
beginning.
And it appears that other police facilities and non public operations
also bear the tag.
We could try to migrate those other police amenities to
amenity=police_facility
some would better be retagged as office, but if you want a tag which
more reliably states “police station”, it looks like a new subtag e.g.
police=station could work.
Why have amenity=police_facility where that too will have to have sub
tags .. possibly more police=* values?
Why not simply accept the key police=* and be done with the intermediate
step of amenity=police or amenity=police_facility or
amenity=police_office ro amenity=police_garage etc... ?
There are already 22 of them ;-)
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/police#values
Any if the key police=* how many will then become used?
Most common (the only significantly used) value for “police” is
“traffic_police” (987 uses). This is a type of police, not a type of
facility.
A 'type' of police in some police facility.
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