2010/7/31 Kevin Peat <ke...@kevinpeat.com>: > Both the police and ambulance service spend a lot of their time on > non-emergency items as do hospitals, doctors, etc. If you want to write an > app that lists the police under an "emergencies" menu/button then go ahead > but you don't need to change the OSM data to do it.
I think it must be reminded that disscussion started when amenity=water_hydrant didn't sound so obvious... I think problem is not that we need or we want emergency=*, weather=*, whatever=*, but that amenity is overcrowded - period. If that can be solved introducing meaningful new name spaces like emergency, which could give easy way to filter emergency items, why not? What is cost of this? 1) Changing it in wiki - one day tops 2) Changing it in db - mass convertation, doable in one shot 3) Add presets to JOSM - also one day tops I think you over analyze situation too much. Change selected group of tags which makes sense (we have already discussed about it), finialised it for now, and inform about this change osm-talk. And do it. Mappers will catch on. Cheers, Peter. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
