Tag:amenity=coast_guard
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A coast guard station, see also emergency=coast_guard 
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A place, almost always a building or group of buildings housing a Coast guard station.
A coast guard or coastguard is a national organization responsible for various services at sea. However the term implies widely different responsibilities in different countries, from being a heavily armed military force with customs and security duties to being a volunteer organization tasked with search and rescue functions and lacking any law enforcement powers.
It may be better to use more specific tags.
Use in imports
(defined as 201007* in CanVec: Buildings and structures (BS))