Tag:emergency=assembly_point
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 emergency = assembly_point
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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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Status: in use
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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.
Purpose
Using the assembly_point namespace you can specify which emergency types an assembly point is designed for:
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| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. |
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Usage observation
About 5700 of the 8000 current uses of this tag (as of 2019-01) 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.