Blake, Almost all shelters have a primary other use. This might be something we could work on with the Red Cross as they are required to manage the evacuation/emergency shelters in the US.
Dale On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > > Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com> writes: > > > What tags are we using in the US for disaster evacuation centers for > > like hurricanes and things? > > > > http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/evacuation_center#map > > > > Shows none in the US but I know we have a lot. > > > > I am looking for the right tag to use but am just so shocked we don't > > use that tag in the US, is there another one I should be looking at? > > I suspect that in the US, there are almost zero places where the primary > purpose is as a shelter (what we call them in Mass.). In my town, we > have a school (that has a generator) designated as a shelter in the > local emergency plan and it is activated/opened during extended power > outages or other issues. > > There may be a difference between shelter (that you can go to if you > want, to use the shower, have heat, charge your phone) and a place where > you are told to go during mandatory evacuation orders, but I suspect > it's the same thing. > > It does seem like evacuation_center=yes is a secondary key that can get > added to describe an attribute, vs the object primarily being a > shelter. That seems sensible to me. > > Nits about spelling aside, it seems as good as any, assuming there is no > real difference between evacuation_center and what we in the US call a > (emergency type) shelter. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- sent from my mobile device Dale Kunce http://normalhabit.com
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