On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > there was a proposal on the Wiki about two years ago about a > possible extra tag "emergency" for hospitals, to signal whether they > have an A&E (or ER, U.S.) facility. The proposal was voted through at > the time but there were procedural doubts (something like 5 pro and 1 > contra vote or so) and the proposal remained in limbo and was recently > flagged "abandoned" by User:Chriscf. > > Meanwhile, since the "emergency" tag obviously makes a lot of sense, it > has been used about 80 times in conjunction with hospitals in Europe. > > I'll therefore move that on to the Map Features page unless someone has > a good reason against it. > > See here for details of the old proposal: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Hospital:_Emergency > > Bye > Frederik > What about a possible "emergency" access tag? It could cause a name conflict. At the least, the tag could be vague if it appears separate from a hospital node. What about "emergency_service" or "emergency_department" or "emergency_room"? Karl
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