Please don’t change the established meaning of amenity=police; it should keep meaning “a public police station”.
Most database users are only going to be interested in public police stations, that’s why we’ve gotten by for over 10 years with just amenity=police. It’s fine if the police=* tag isn’t I’m used by all renderers and database users at first, because only some types of maps and databases need additional info. Joseph On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 3:39 PM Jan S <grimpeu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Am 15. März 2019 00:19:22 MEZ schrieb althio <althio.fo...@gmail.com>: > >Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > If this seems viable, I would expand the proposal by a migration > >proposal from amenity=police to police=station > >> > >> I don’t think we should abandon amenity=police and it will likely not > >happen unless people tag so many different things with the tag that it > >becomes useless. My primary interest is in specifying the kind of > >police and facility, a generic amenity=police on top of that does not > >harm. If the new scheme becomes so widespread that every police station > >also has a more specific police=* tag, we can still decide to remove > >the amenity=police tags. > > That sounds reasonable. So we'd keep amenity=police as the general > indicator of police facilities and use police=* as a sub-tag to specify the > type of facility. The current wiki page for amenity=police would > consequently move to police=station and amenity=police would be reduced to > indicate that the tag is used for all police facilities (and maybe hold a > list of what's considered police by country). > > I'll adapt the proposal. > > >There is no need to abandon amenity=police for public facing police > >stations. > > That, on the contrary, doesn't seem consequent to me. We'd end up with > amenity=police and police=* as main tags for different types of police > facilities. I fear that that would be confusing and cause inconsistent > mapping. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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