On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 at 19:05, Jez Nicholson <[email protected]> wrote:
> When the lifeboat is permanently moored at a particular location it is > less transitory than a bus....so people can and do tag them. Not me > necessarily, but other mappers. > True, but can you guarantee that I can walk up to that spot "right now" & see that lifeboat moored there? No, as it could be out in use or away being serviced, if there are multiple vessels at any station, their locations could swap around, or there could be a visiting vessel moored there. So, my request that amenity=lifeboat be removed from the proposal's list of > incorrect tags as it is *not* a lifeboat station. > No, it's a mobile feature, and I thought it was an OSM axiom that we don't map mobile features? > but they are low in number. > It would appear that most of them, ~200, appeared in one go, possibly as an import "almost two years ago", which I certainly don't remember being discussed at all at the time? https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/lifeboat#chronology e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4113966536. That makes reference to a source of https://rnli.org/find-my-nearest. But when you look at it's T&C, particularly the IPRs, https://rnli.org/footer/terms-and-conditions, it would appear highly unlikely that we are actually allowed to make use of it as a source :-( Thanks Graeme
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