Re: [talk-au] Tagging fire stations

2022-10-11 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 at 18:26, Ewen Hill wrote: > > Is there any State data we could use? > Mentioned earlier that I found https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/rural- fire-stations/resource/e09d0d06-b13e-4e52-b82d-1ce0cf05927c, but we'd probably have to contact them for permission. Thanks

Re: [talk-au] Tagging fire stations

2022-10-11 Thread Ewen Hill
Hi Bob, There are many varied stations in Australia, from the William Creek station being just a water tanker and attached pump sitting on the forecourt without a shed, to multi-emergency sites like Pakenham in Victoria. There are also local headquarters (LHQ's) and training grounds that may or

Re: [talk-au] Tagging fire stations

2022-10-10 Thread Bob Cameron
Hi Y'all. (So lived in Texas in a past life..) Possibly also worth noting - Many a rural/remote site has an ill defined block boundary. Some are tucked in corners of rec reserves and some are even on private land. (which affects road access tags) - Naming (on signs etc) may be problematic.

Re: [talk-au] Tagging fire stations

2022-10-10 Thread Warin
On 10/10/22 10:52, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 09:27, Mark Rattigan wrote: There are also plenty of minor RFS brigades which operate out of buildings that weren't originally built to be fire stations. But how then do we tag all of those where the firies

Re: [talk-au] Tagging fire stations

2022-10-09 Thread Phil Wyatt
Hi Folks, Well I am not too sure that the correct tagging of buildings is applied at all in Australia as I can only see about 200 uses of building:use=* in all of Oz! Seems most folks use the building tag to denote current use rather than initial construction intention. I am sure there are

Re: [talk-au] Tagging fire stations

2022-10-09 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 09:27, Mark Rattigan wrote: > > There are also plenty of minor RFS brigades which operate out of buildings > that weren't originally built to be fire stations. > But how then do we tag all of those where the firies operate out of a tin shed? Is it a

Re: [talk-au] Tagging fire stations

2022-10-09 Thread Mark Rattigan
Hi Phil I suspect that 'cleaning-up' these tags would require local knowledge for each location, and is certainly not as clean-cut as making sure that either one or the other is used. There are cases when only the building tag should be used, and some when only the amenity tag should be used.