<div dir="ltr">Hi Luciën,<div><br></div><div>I can't answer your question but have wondered why someone hasn't (as far as I know) tried creating an Emergency Services router, it seems as potentially valuable as the usual bike/car/walk routers? Likewise, it ought to be possible to create a tall vehicles router using OSM data that avoids low bridges etc.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm sure it partly comes down to confidence in the data, but I know that the SatNavs currently used by some Emergency Services in the UK, though produced by a reputable commercial provider, regularly lag reality by months or years, and I wonder if they are aware of emergency services routes?</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 at 13:32, Luciën Greefkes via Talk-GB <<a href="mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org">talk-gb@openstreetmap.org</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"><div><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr">Currently, in the Netherlands, we (three volunteers of the Dutch community) are working on standardizing emergency services on OSM and running a series of workshops. Fire brigades and ambulances are using Openstreetmap data for navigation to fires. We have quite a number of firemen and women contributing as well.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Especially with nature fires routing is not always as obvious as just driving down a road or path. They have also locations where they are allowed to cross a meadow to quickly reach a certain point in a nature reserve. It is tempting to use the tag highway=virtual, but is not by every mapper regarded desirable. We're looking to find a compromise on this one.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Two keys/tags that are oftentimes used are fire_path=yes (to indicate that specific fire trucks can use certain paths) and emergency=yes, along with some other specifics. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The software builder will adapt (new or different) tags, at least one brigade is in good contact with the developers as far as I know.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We were wondering: how is OSM Great Britain co-operating with emergency services? Is there a way of tapping into your resources?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks!<br>Luciën <br></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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