Tag:emergency=assembly_point

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Description
A designated (safe) place where people can gather or must report to during an emergency or a fire drill. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: emergencies
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
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Status: de factoPage for proposal

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.

Purpose

Using the assembly_point namespace you can specify which emergency types an assembly point is designed for:

Tag Description Example
assembly_point:earthquake=yes Assembly point where people can go in case of earthquake.
assembly_point:earthquake=no This assembly point is not suitable in case of earthquake.
assembly_point:fire=yes Assembly point where people can go in case of fire.
(Camp-)fire assembly point - geograph.org.uk - 839740.jpg
assembly_point:fire=no This assembly point is not suitable in case of fire.
assembly_point:flood=yes Assembly point where people can go in case of floods.
assembly_point:flood=no This assembly point is not suitable in case of floods.
assembly_point:landslide=yes Assembly point where people can go in case of landslides.
assembly_point:landslide=no This assembly point is not suitable in case of landslides.
assembly_point:tornado=yes Assembly point where people can go in case of tornado.
assembly_point:tornado=no This assembly point is not suitable in case of tornado.
assembly_point:tsunami=yes Assembly point where people can go in case of tsunami.
Aberdeen, WA - Tsunami assembly sign.jpg
assembly_point:tsunami=no This assembly point is not suitable in case of tsunami.
assembly_point:tsunami=(height in meters) Assembly point where people can go in case of tsunami only up to a certain height.

Usage observation

Emergency assembly point taghistory 2018.png

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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