On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 at 16:20, Gareth L <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
