> The places (stations etc) where the emergency response come from would > not be an 'office'; "An office is a place of business where > administrative or professional work is carried out. " e.g. lawyers, > accountants, records,
In the US we have the concept of "Emergency Management Agency" which is at least partly not something like firefighters/ambulance/police. These exist at federal, state, county and local levels. They more or less does three things: planning and training for future emergencies. Creation of "Local Emergency Plan" documents. Coordinating that lots of people have taken a dizzying array of classes. Perhaps hosting classes. operating an Emergency Operations Center where command staff decide what various resources are going to do during an emergency. has some staff who function more or less like firefighters in that they go to locations where emergency services are needed and do urban search and rescue, swift water rescue, damage assessment The first one is definitely office=government government=emergency. I think the second one is too. A facility that houses equipment that personnel from the third case use as a response base feels like emergency=ses_station. Sometimes there are facilities that do all three. There is a federal facility in New England that is at least both 2&3 and surely they must do 1. Overall I think I'm agreeing with Warin here - some functions of "Civil Defense" (as it used to be called before that was politically incorrect) are office functions, and some are conceptually similar to fire/rescue departments. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
