<div dir="ltr">Thanks Robert, I added a precis of your comments onto <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_2020_Q4_Project:_Defibrillators">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_2020_Q4_Project:_Defibrillators</a><div><br></div><div>My first question about <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency%3Ddefibrillator">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency%3Ddefibrillator</a> tagging.....my nearby defib is <a href="https://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/8764699.jpg">https://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/8764699.jpg</a> What tags should I be capturing? phone=999 + indoors=no? access=code?</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 8:56 AM Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) <<a href="mailto:robert.whittaker%2Bosm@gmail.com">robert.whittaker+osm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 at 16:20, Gareth L <<a href="mailto:o.i@live.co.uk" target="_blank">o.i@live.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> The UK quarterly project for Q4 has been selected as Defibrillators. <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_2020_Q4_Project:_Defibrillators" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_2020_Q4_Project:_Defibrillators</a><br>
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> A check on taginfo shows there are 4181 nodes and ways with emergency=defibrillator in Great Britain. Reading <a href="https://cesafety.co.uk/list-of-public-access-defibrillators-across-the-uk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cesafety.co.uk/list-of-public-access-defibrillators-across-the-uk</a> from August 2019 reports that there are 5304 defibrillators in London alone.<br>
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I've got the AED data from all the Ambulance Services in the UK apart<br>
from Northern Ireland and London in my OSM comparison tool at<br>
<a href="https://osm.mathmos.net/defib/progress/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://osm.mathmos.net/defib/progress/</a> . Much of the data is more<br>
than a year old, but given our current levels of mapping, that<br>
probably doesn't matter too much for now. Of the 25k AEDs in those<br>
Ambulance Services' data, we've currently only got about 12.4% of them<br>
mapped. So there's lots to do.<br>
<br>
The Ambulance Services are currently moving to a central UK-wide<br>
database of AEDs called "The Circuit" (see [1] and [2]), which is<br>
being run by the British Heart Foundation. It's not clear whether<br>
they're intending to publish the national set of locations, though my<br>
local Ambulance Service (East of England) have said they intend to<br>
keep publishing a list for their region.<br>
<br>
It's apparent from my tool that there are a significant number of AEDs<br>
that we have mapped in OSM but which aren't on the Ambulance Services'<br>
lists. It would be great if we could engage with the people running<br>
The Circuit to look into ways in which they could use OSM data to help<br>
them discover additional AEDs that haven't yet been registered with<br>
them. I doubt they would take our data on trust (I think they want to<br>
have contact details for the owners and regular assurances that the<br>
AED is being actively maintained) but it would be a good source of<br>
hints for them in who to contact to get the missing devices registered<br>
with them.<br>
<br>
Robert.<br>
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[1] <a href="https://www.thecircuit.uk/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.thecircuit.uk/</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-help/how-to-save-a-life/defibrillators/ndn-the-circuit" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-help/how-to-save-a-life/defibrillators/ndn-the-circuit</a><br>
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-- <br>
Robert Whittaker<br>
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Robert Whittaker<br>
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