Thanks Robert, I added a precis of your comments onto https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_2020_Q4_Project:_Defibrillators
My first question about https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency%3Ddefibrillator tagging.....my nearby defib is https://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/8764699.jpg What tags should I be capturing? phone=999 + indoors=no? access=code? I'm guessing that many of the UK's defibrillators will be similar in style so it would be good to publish a UK-specific model answer on the wiki page. On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 8:56 AM Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) < robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 at 16:20, Gareth L <o...@live.co.uk> wrote: > > The UK quarterly project for Q4 has been selected as Defibrillators. > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_2020_Q4_Project:_Defibrillators > > > > A check on taginfo shows there are 4181 nodes and ways with > emergency=defibrillator in Great Britain. Reading > https://cesafety.co.uk/list-of-public-access-defibrillators-across-the-uk > from August 2019 reports that there are 5304 defibrillators in London alone. > > I've got the AED data from all the Ambulance Services in the UK apart > from Northern Ireland and London in my OSM comparison tool at > https://osm.mathmos.net/defib/progress/ . Much of the data is more > than a year old, but given our current levels of mapping, that > probably doesn't matter too much for now. Of the 25k AEDs in those > Ambulance Services' data, we've currently only got about 12.4% of them > mapped. So there's lots to do. > > The Ambulance Services are currently moving to a central UK-wide > database of AEDs called "The Circuit" (see [1] and [2]), which is > being run by the British Heart Foundation. It's not clear whether > they're intending to publish the national set of locations, though my > local Ambulance Service (East of England) have said they intend to > keep publishing a list for their region. > > It's apparent from my tool that there are a significant number of AEDs > that we have mapped in OSM but which aren't on the Ambulance Services' > lists. It would be great if we could engage with the people running > The Circuit to look into ways in which they could use OSM data to help > them discover additional AEDs that haven't yet been registered with > them. I doubt they would take our data on trust (I think they want to > have contact details for the owners and regular assurances that the > AED is being actively maintained) but it would be a good source of > hints for them in who to contact to get the missing devices registered > with them. > > Robert. > > [1] https://www.thecircuit.uk/ > [2] > https://www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-help/how-to-save-a-life/defibrillators/ndn-the-circuit > > -- > Robert Whittaker > > -- > Robert Whittaker > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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