During discussions on one of the proposals that finished up as emergency=water_rescue ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_talk:Emergency%3Dlifeboat_station#Use_on_Rescue-related_sites), there was suggestion of office=government + government=transportation + emergency=control_centre for those establishments which control emergency operations, rather than house emergency workers e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/267835828
I have thought about documenting a proposal for that but haven't got to it Thanks Graeme On Mon, 15 May 2023 at 22:00, Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > > The places (stations etc) where the emergency response come from would > > not be an 'office'; "An office is a place of business where > > administrative or professional work is carried out. " e.g. lawyers, > > accountants, records, > > In the US we have the concept of "Emergency Management Agency" which is > at least partly not something like firefighters/ambulance/police. These > exist at federal, state, county and local levels. They more or less does > three things: > > planning and training for future emergencies. Creation of "Local > Emergency Plan" documents. Coordinating that lots of people have > taken a dizzying array of classes. Perhaps hosting classes. > > operating an Emergency Operations Center where command staff decide > what various resources are going to do during an emergency. > > has some staff who function more or less like firefighters in that > they go to locations where emergency services are needed and do urban > search and rescue, swift water rescue, damage assessment > > > The first one is definitely office=government government=emergency. I > think the second one is too. > > A facility that houses equipment that personnel from the third case use > as a response base feels like emergency=ses_station. > > Sometimes there are facilities that do all three. There is a federal > facility in New England that is at least both 2&3 and surely they must > do 1. > > > Overall I think I'm agreeing with Warin here - some functions of "Civil > Defense" (as it used to be called before that was politically incorrect) > are office functions, and some are conceptually similar to fire/rescue > departments. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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