Discussions on the Talk page mentioned groups such as these https://wsart.org.uk/, who assist Emergency Services (Police, Fire & Ambulance) with water search & rescue.
Have mentioned them in the proposal as emergency_service=water Thanks Graeme On Fri, 25 Nov 2022 at 09:35, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 at 19:05, Jez Nicholson <jez.nichol...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> When the lifeboat is permanently moored at a particular location it is >> less transitory than a bus....so people can and do tag them. Not me >> necessarily, but other mappers. >> > > True, but can you guarantee that I can walk up to that spot "right now" & > see that lifeboat moored there? > > No, as it could be out in use or away being serviced, if there are > multiple vessels at any station, their locations could swap around, or > there could be a visiting vessel moored there. > > So, my request that amenity=lifeboat be removed from the proposal's list >> of incorrect tags as it is *not* a lifeboat station. >> > > No, it's a mobile feature, and I thought it was an OSM axiom that we don't > map mobile features? > > >> but they are low in number. >> > > It would appear that most of them, ~200, appeared in one go, possibly as > an import "almost two years ago", which I certainly don't remember being > discussed at all at the time? > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/lifeboat#chronology e.g. > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4113966536. > > That makes reference to a source of https://rnli.org/find-my-nearest. But > when you look at it's T&C, particularly the IPRs, > https://rnli.org/footer/terms-and-conditions, it would appear highly > unlikely that we are actually allowed to make use of it as a source :-( > > Thanks > > Graeme > >
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