Tag:emergency=assembly_point
 emergency =
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A designated (safe) place where people can gather or must report to during an emergency or a fire drill. 
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An Emergency Assembly Point (EAP), muster point, meeting point or staging area is a designated place or an area where all employees, passengers or a large crowd assemble in case of an emergency in an installation, building or a public place.
assembly_point: Namespace Usage
Specifies the emergency types an assembly point is designed to support, or explicitly identify what emergency types are not supported.
By leveraging the assembly_point namespace effectively, contributors can ensure that assembly points are correctly identified for specific emergency scenarios, enhancing safety and response efforts.
Usage observation
About 5700 of the 13,177 current uses of this tag (as of 2023-06) were introduced by an import in Taiwan, of shelter-functions of public buildings (schools, gov offices) in a case of emergency. The tag emergency=assembly_point is not well chosen for those.
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See also
highway=emergency_access_point- A sign number which can be used to define you current position in case of an emergencyemergency=access_point- A sign number which can be used to define your current position in case of an emergencymilitary=bunkeremergency=disaster_help_pointsocial_facility=shelter- Fire protection with OSM
- Proposed features/assembly point:purpose
- Proposed_features/Muster_point