On 03/11/19 18:51, Francesco Ansanelli wrote:
Hello list,
I don't know is anybody wrote about this before, but I have noticed
that the emergency tag changes meaning on hospitals and the result is
weird:
emergency tag indicate whether an emergency vehicle has access to the
way/point, but on hospitals his value is about emergency rooms.
I cannot imagine an hospital that disallowed access to emergency
vehicles, but the editors by example forgot about this and indicate so...
To avoid any ambiguity a rename could clarify the situation:
emergency -> emergency_room
On every hospital and we can assume emergency=yes on them (it's hard
to me to imagine a place that is emergency=no btw).
What do you think?
It is not only an 'emergency room' that is required to be suitable for
emergencies.
Some 'hospitals' simply cannot deal with emergencies and so emergency=no
is a good tag for them.
As we all know an emergency vehicle will not pay much attention to stop
lights etc,
so if it suits them then emergency=no will not stop them calling into a
hospital. But most ambulances will already know of the hospitals
capability and so they won't be using OSM. It is the people travelling
by private vehicle who will not be aware of the capabilities that can be
caught out.
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