Refreshed proposal - Emergency=disaster response

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The problem I see here is the conflict with office=government for offices of disaster response organisations that are governmental. Maybe a solution could be office=disaster_response + operator:type=government or office=government + disaster_response=office.

I would like to keep it as simple as possible so I want to avoid any not absolutely necessary tag. But at the moment it feels like emergency=disaster_response is not enough. And I like the parallels to emergency=lifeguard.

I tried to come up with a tagging scheme for every

facility of a not-military organisation that has the main objective to help the civil population during and after natural or anthropogenic disasters by working in the affected area but does not have firefighting or medical service as their main competence

with different tags for different facility types. I basicly added disaster_response=* with different values to distinguish the facility types.

local/duty station administrative place school/college/academy training area storage depot/warehouse
main relevance of place meeting point for members for regular training and maintenance self administrative office work members getting schooled in theory and praxis members practice under near realistic conditions equipment is stored to be distributed when necessary
similar tags amenity=police
amenity=fire_station
lifeguard=base
military=base		 police=offices
military=office
office=lifeguard		 police=academy
military=academy		 military=training_area ?
emergency disaster_response - - - -
disaster_response base office academy training_area depot

This table just shows an idea. It is not complete or finished. What do you think about it? Should we refine this concept or limit this proposal to emergency=disaster_response?

There seems to be an inconsistency with the office tags for similar organisations. Sometimes office is the key, sometimes its the value. And sometimes it is in plural. All 3 cases can be seen in the table. Is there a reason for that?