[talk-au] Fire Station Operators

Sebastian S. mapping at consebt.de
Mon Feb 3 02:57:44 UTC 2020


Since last JOSM release building=fire_station is also now recognised/available in the drop down.

On 3 February 2020 10:17:18 am AEDT, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>What I was talking about were
>
>building=fire_station
>
>.. of which there were 944 in the OSM data base WORLD WIDE.
>
>There are now some ~1,200 world wide.
>
>See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Abuilding%3Dfire_station
>Note I created this wiki page to encourage others to tag the building 
>detail.
>
>Note: Some places have both a 'Fire and Rescue' and 'Rural Fire' 
>stations, these may be in separate locations but within the same town.
>
>
>On 2/2/20 5:32 pm, Andrew Davidson wrote:
>> On 26/1/20 12:29 pm, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:> However, there were 
>> "only" 718 listed. Earlier, Warin mentioned 944 > stations in the 
>> database, & I've spotted 3 that I know of that weren't > listed (or 
>> previously mapped).
>> I was confused by this as well. At the moment there are 734 "fire 
>> stations" in OSM (NSW):
>>
>> https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Qjr
>>
>> But these include a number of control centres and training facilities
>
>> so it a bit over the actual number correctly mapped.
>>
>> According to the latest annual report of FRNSW there are 335 metro 
>> fire stations in NSW, and NSW RFS says there are 2002 rural brigades.
>
>> Given that a rural brigade does not necessarily have a physical 
>> presence on the ground or they might have more than one home, we
>can't 
>> really say how many RFB stations there are.
>>
>> The Base Map has 1688 rural fire stations and 338 metro, which is
>just 
>> over 2000 (but these include control centres and training facilites
>as 
>> well). By my calcs that's about 1200 missing fire stations, and
>that's 
>> before we start worrying about the 300 RFB that may or may not be on 
>> the LPI map.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Talk-au mailing list
>> Talk-au at openstreetmap.org
>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Talk-au mailing list
>Talk-au at openstreetmap.org
>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/attachments/20200203/78dca4ea/attachment.htm>


More information about the Talk-au mailing list