Refreshed proposal - Emergency=disaster response

[os-emmer]

@osmuser63783

This is just to avoid misunderstandings especially by mappers who may be unfamiliar with this type of organisation.

That is a very good point. Some of this was already in the Rationale but I reworked the section and incooperated your thoughts. What do you think about that formulation?

Rationale

In some countries (e.g. Germany, Australia), there are dedicated organisations whose primary purpose is to aid the population during and after disasters. Currently there is no consistent scheme existing to tag these. While disaster response is organised differently in different countries, there are similar organisations in different countries that should be consistently tagged. As disaster response is a type of emergency service, it is logical to use the emergency=* key. Organisations that help in disasters but do not have disaster response as their primary purpose (e.g. police, fire bridage, medical services) are not affected. As disaster response is organised differently around the world the proposed tag will probably not be used in all countries, only in those that have such disaster response agencies as described on this page.

@osmuser63783

You could also make a short post in the German part of the forum

Good point and done:

Proposal/Vorschlag, der das Technische Hilfswerk (THW) betrifft

Derzeit wird ein Proposal/Vorschlag, für die Einführung von emergency=disaster_response diskutiert. Ziel ist es, ein weltweit einheitliches Schema für Katastrophenschutz-/Zivilschutzorganisationen zu entwickeln. Dazu läuft schon länger eine umfangreiche Diskussion auf englisch. Da unter anderem das THW als deutsche Organisation davon betroffen wäre, informiere ich an dieser Stelle darüber. Wer sich an der Diskussion beteiligen möchte, ist gerne dazu eingeladen, dies zu tun.