Further suggestion to combine all water-rescue activities under emergency=water_rescue as an effective top tag:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/emergency%3Dlifeboat_station#Another_option:_emergency=water_rescue Thanks Graeme On Fri, 25 Nov 2022 at 12:01, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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