Hello all, There's a project started for Yorkshire and Humber, which seems to be run by Yorkshire Ambulance Service, BHF and others: https://www.mapmydefib.com
No actual map there, just a form asking for people to register new defibs. I'm not sure how to approach them but willing to give something a go. Ben On 22 April 2016 at 14:43, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) < [email protected]> wrote: > It was suggested that trying to increase our mapping of public > Defibrillators would be a good think. After a bit of digging, it seems > that Ambulance Services typically maintain a list of locations, with a > view to informing people about them if a 999 call comes in nearby > where one might be useful. > > The different services seem to take quite different views on these > lists. My local service (East of England) actively publicise their > list ( > http://www.eastamb.nhs.uk/Get-involved/Community-Public-Access-Defibrillators.htm > ) > on the grounds that raising awareness of the locations will make it > more likely that someone will know about and find a defibrillator in > an emergency. Other services have refused FOI requests on the (IMO > spurious) grounds that publicising the list will make thefts / > vandalism more likely, and out of date information may lead to people > wasting time in an emergency. > > Anyway, I've taken the East of England list from > http://www.eastamb.nhs.uk/Get%20involved/CPADs/CPAD%20List.pdf , and > done a comparison with the OSM data. A rough and ready tool can be > found at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/defib/progress/ for any other > locals who want to use it. We've got a small number of locations they > haven't, and some of their postcodes may not be quite right. But there > are a lot on their list that aren't mapped yet! > > Regarding tagging, it seems that a lot of the cabinets have a > reference number on the outside, so I'd suggest recording that in the > ref=* tag. Also, I think a description of the location would be useful > (e.g. "Outside wall of McDonalds, facing Store 21") to help people > find the defibrillator when they need it. I've been putting something > like that in a location=* key. > > In terms of getting more data, I've put in FOI requests to the East > and West Midlands Ambulance Services for starters, so we'll see what > line they take... > > Best wishes, > > Robert. > > -- > Robert Whittaker > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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