I think most laws require that even emergency vehicles observe restrictions like oneway streets. If there are any restrictions which can be broken in case of emergency vehicles, I think they'd program their routing software to them.
- Svavar Kjarrval On 15/10/12 18:16, Eckhart Wörner wrote: > Hi Colin, > > Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2012, 20:08:01 schrieb Colin Smale: >> I don't understand why emergency vehicles are so important in this >> discussion. In the first place they have wide-ranging exemptions from >> traffic rules, which (let's be honest) we are never going to tag in OSM. >> Secondly they are never going to be relying on OSM data (or indeed any >> normal sat-nav) for lane-precise routing. They are trained to use their >> eyes and brains to make split-second decisions on what is safe and an >> acceptable risk under the circumstances of that moment. Thirdly, they >> will be about 0.0000000001% of the potential users of OSM data - why >> should we compromise "service" to the vast majority of real users for >> the hypothetical benefit of the very few. > I fully agree with you; if we were going to map for emergency vehicles, we'd > probably have to add > oneway:conditional = no @ emergency > for almost all oneway roads first. > > Eckhart > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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