Retagging the Australian SES'es with emergency=disaster_response

[os-emmer]

@aharvey

Australian Tagging Guidelines/Australian features - OpenStreetMap Wiki includes the suggested operator tagging for each of the State and Territory organisations within Australia.

I didn’t know that list, thanks for linking.

@aharvey

While we do generally avoid abbreviations for the name, I think it’s okay to shorten it like ‘NSW State Emergency Service’, this matches how it’s spelled out at https://www.ses.nsw.gov.au/

@Fizzie41

even their website https://www.ses.nsw.gov.au/ is SES at NSW Gov, but the page refers to both NSW SES & also NSW State Emergency Service, while their copyright page says “© State of New South Wales (NSW State Emergency Service)”

I asked the same question about the abbroviation about the German Technisches Hilfswerk in this German thread. On the surface finding the name of an organisation seems very easy. But if you look closer, you find something like this:

@os-emmer

(source: THW)

“Bundesanstalt” means “federal agency”. Within a few centimeters of screen the offical website states 3 different versions of the name.

De-facto there seems to be consens on abbroviating the state name and spelling out the “State Emergency Service” in Australia. And since it is even documented in the wiki I could live with that, even when it is not my most favourite version.

@aharvey

I’ve also added these as a PR to the Name Suggestion Index add operators/emergency/disaster_response for AU by andrewharvey · Pull Request #9221 · osmlab/name-suggestion-index · GitHub , please any feedback appreciated.

Thanks fo doing so.
Like said, we are currently discussing some details about how to map different facilitys of the German THW. Once we have consensus on that I’d like to iniciate the same for the German THW.