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emergency
Description
Describes various emergency services, facilities, amenities or the possibility of access for emergency services
Group:
emergencies
Used on these
elements
Documented values:
63
See also
access
=*
emergency:*
=*
Status:
de facto
emergency
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emergency
=*
is used in multiple ways, all related to emergency services, and facilities and amenities related to emergency and disaster response.
Contents
Emergency facilities and amenities
As access tag
As hospital property
As namespace prefix
Emergency facilities and amenities
emergency
=*
is the key used for a wide variety of emergency related facilities and amenities, such as
emergency
fire_hydrant
emergency
defibrillator
, and
emergency
lifeguard
. For the full list of common documented values, see
Main article:
Emergency facilities and amenities
As access tag
emergency
yes
can be used as a
vehicle use-class
access key
, and is used to indicate that a given
highway
=*
is accessible to the vehicles of emergency services. As emergency vehicles are by definition not restricted by legal access, this tag is mainly useful to clarify that a way is mapped specifically for the purposes of emergency vehicle routing, or that emergency vehicles can use a way where this might otherwise not be expected unimpeded.
For example, take a minor service road tagged as:
highway = service
access = private
emergency = yes
A road tagged like this can be reasonably assumed to lack any impassable barriers and physical obstacles (unless mapped explicitly) and be suitable for emergency vehicles. Note that
emergency
yes
on its own does not override
physical limits
, and in cases where a legal limit (like
maxwidth
=*
) is tagged without an accompanying physical limit (like
maxwidth:physical
=*
), having
emergency
yes
should not be read to imply that there is no physical limit for emergency services.
If a legal limit can be safely overridden for emergency services because there is no physical limit, this can be done explicitly using the relevant tag suffixed with
*:emergency
=*
or
*:conditional
=*
— e.g., on a road with a traffic sign declaring
maxweight
=*
a few kilometres before a bridge that has the actual physical limit, the stretch of road
up to
the bridge (but not the bridge itself obviously) may have no physical limit despite having an enforceable legal limit, which could be indicated by
maxweight:emergency
none
or
maxweight:conditional
none @ emergency
. In general though, overriding such tags should not be done light-heartedly, and should be done in accordance with the local mapper community's conventions for this.
When
emergency
yes
is used on a
barrier
=*
node
along a way, it means that emergency services have a way of negotiating this barrier — e.g., an automatic bollard which drops for emergency services, or a gate or bollard for which emergency services have a passkey.
For places explicitly
designated
for emergency access consider
emergency
designated
. For
highway
service
in combination with
emergency
designated
service
emergency_access
(for marking ways as dedicated emergency ways) may apply as well.
As hospital property
emergency
yes
is also used to indicate whether a hospital (
amenity
hospital
or
healthcare
hospital
) is equipped to deal with emergencies. See also
emergency
emergency_ward_entrance
As namespace prefix
The emergency
namespace
prefix
emergency:*
=*
) is used to disambiguate multi-function facilities between their primary, and emergency use. This prefix is used in Japan, the Philippines, and Taiwan (where it was first used), for mapping designated emergency shelters that normally serve a different, primary function (e.g. school, community centre, place of worship, etcetera.)
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Key descriptions for group "emergencies"
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Emergencies
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