[talk-au] What to tag a fire-fighting water tank?

I've come across some large water tanks for fire fighting purposes, and was wondering what exactly to tag them as. I've found a few in the Kinglake area, there's a few more to put on the map too. Pictures of them: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/843/20111022040.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/phot

Re: [talk-au] What to tag a fire-fighting water tank?

I'd be inclined to go for used-defined tags. The existing tags do not accurately describe the feature, and are at best misleading. A suggestion: emergency=water water=tank As far as capacity is concerned, I'd opt for the standard unit for measuring large water volumes - megalitres (ML). 1 M

Re: [talk-au] What to tag a fire-fighting water tank?

On 30 October 2011 16:24, John Henderson wrote: > As far as capacity is concerned, I'd opt for the standard unit for measuring > large water volumes - megalitres (ML). Might be commonly used in Australia but the SI unit is actually cubic metres. ___ Ta

Re: [talk-au] What to tag a fire-fighting water tank?

True, but that doesn't mean we need to use it. When they actually bother to give the SI unit a name, I'll think about using it. In the meantime, the named metric unit of volume is the litre (L), and you can use it with all the prefixes, including KL (or cubic metre), ML etc. The prefixes don't r