Emergency facilities and amenities

Feature: Emergency facilities and amenities

Description

Facilities and amenities related to emergency services.

Group

emergencies

Tags

amenity=*, healthcare=*, emergency=*

For the mapping of amenities and facilities related to emergency services and other amenities related to emergencies the following tags are useful.

Medical rescue

The entries listed here are related to medical emergencies. For other healthcare related tags, see Healthcare.

Firefighting

amenity=emergency_service was previously used for the German Technisches Hilfswerk. This tag is now deprecated, see emergency=disaster_response for more details.

Lifeguards

Rescue stations

The tags emergency=lifeboat_station, emergency=marine_rescue, and amenity=lifeboat_station have been deprecated in favour of emergency=water_rescue.

emergency=ses_station is deprecated. See emergency=disaster_response for a potential replacement.

Assembly point

Other structures

Note: there is also the de facto tag prefix emergency:* for facilities that take on special functions in an emergency but are normally used for other things.