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<div style="16px" text-align="left">7 May 2019, 20:22 by steven@stevenhorner.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="auto"><div style="16px" text-align="left">I imagine other Council's and public services have similar problems.<br></div></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">In Poland it turns out that there is no central fire hydrant database.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">For obvious reasons this data is useful for firefighters.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Currently there is some infrastructure used by many firefighters that is<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">using OSM data (includes geocoding for emergency responders,<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">routing for firefighters[1] and locating for example fire hydrants near fire<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">- it seems to be this one: <a href="https://www.abakus.net.pl/products/eremiza.html">https://www.abakus.net.pl/products/eremiza.html</a> )<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.openstreetmap.dotevo.strazak&hl=pl">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.openstreetmap.dotevo.strazak</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">is a specialized editor used solely to add fire hydrants, with some firefighters<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">contributing.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Person who worked on this project mentioned that some companies that<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">are maintaining hydrants started to use OSM data because in many cases<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">it is sole source of data that may help to locate where this things are.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">(info based on presentation on State of The Map Poland 2018 <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">available at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j8X5jhZVy4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j8X5jhZVy4</a> but in Polish,<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">as presented by the company making said software)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">[1] Because as of 2018 government agencies refused to release official road data <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">for use by firefighters and/or low data quality of official data. During presentation<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">it was mentioned that it may be finally changing so I am not sure whatever OSM<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">data is still used for routing of at least some firefighters to emergencies.<br></div> </body>
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