Tag:emergency=control_centre

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Description
Public Safety Answering Point. 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)may be used on relations
Status: in use

An emergency call centre is a centre where requests to emergency services numbers arrive. It may receive emergency calls or communications from a single emergency service or from several. It's also called PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point).

How to map

Set a node or draw as an area. Tag it with emergency=control_centre.

See also

In the United States, emergency=psap has some usage, however the PSAP acronym is not widely known, so the preferred tagging is emergency=control_centre

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