Using the great OSM maps over the last years, I remarked recently a confusion of the Red Cross Sign (used on medical institutions in OSM) and the Swiss Flag. When travelling around the world, the Swiss Flag (red ground, white cross on it) is often used in health care contexts instead of the Red Cross (white ground, red cross on it).
Hi, this was deliberate decision to avoid using Red Cross, because we’ve heard that they are very protective and we wanted to use red for healthcare instead of pink.
Ok, Thank you for reply. I can see that this has already been discussed before. Still I think that replacing (“inversing”) the sign would be useful. But I certainly understand the problem of protectivity by the red cross (although it does not really make sense for them to protect their own sign, does it?)
I think it does make sense: in a war zone sometimes the only thing standing between a doctor and a bullet in the head, or a starving child and a sack of rice and oil, is the Red Cross emblem.
It needs to be protected vigorously from every mental association other than of the Red Cross Societies themselves. Tbh, it’s about the only brand I think deserves it.
Of course, very often the emblem is useless against bombs and bullets - but let’s keep the margin of safety as wide as we possibly can. I don’t mind a bit of map interpretation in return.
