Talk:Tag:amenity=coast guard

Problems with this tag

I run into https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dcoast_guard and despite that I have basically zero experience with such objects I am pretty sure that this description (and an old proposal) has a problematic definition

It was "A building housing the Coast Guard administrative offices" what seems clearly bad:

we have building tags for buildings
this clearly tags coast guard facility (office? station?), not building housing it
this matters for cases like https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1573145 with more than one building
what about Coast Guard parts that are not administrative?

Change description to refer to "coast guard base"?

Describe office=government as better for "Coast Guard administrative offices" and mark it as replaced?

Recommend landuse=military / amenity=police if applicable in a given country?

Also posted to the mailing list

Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 13:26, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

This definition from that proposal is based on CanVec:_Buildings_and_structures_(BS). However it is wrongly interpreted/applied. The combination is building=yes + amenity=coast_guard. Let me add some "see also" tags. Proposed_features/coast_guard could be set as "abandoned". Tag:emergency=coast_guard also looks unfinished. ---- Kovposch (talk) 19:13, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

More recently the military_service=coast_guard tag has been approved. For militarised coast guards, it therefore makes sense to tag the coast guard base as military=base + military_service=coast_guard. It seems that this tag (or the synonymous tag emergency=coast_guard) should, therefore, be for civilian/non-militarised coast guards only. Casey boy (talk) 11:19, 23 November 2022 (UTC)