[Talk-GB] phone boxes used for other purposes

Brian Prangle bprangle at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 08:56:46 UTC 2016


Well as we have a healthcare QP running which seems not to have generated a
community focuslike we did with schools and there's some interest in defibs
- why not get cracking on this for the rest of the QP?

regards

Brian

On 19 April 2016 at 12:21, Paul Berry <pmberry2007 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On the subject of defibrillators, they could make a useful GB mapping
>> project. They need surveying, but it is something that both urban and
>> rural mappers could get out and find on the lighter evenings.
>
>
> I quite agree. I've just mapped two near me (one in an old phone box, one
> affixed to the wall of a shop).
>
> I suspect there are far more out there than would be apparent from the
> map:
> http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/defibrillators-uk_81299#8/53.635/-2.304
>
> Regards,
> *Paul*
>
>
> On 18 April 2016 at 19:21, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 18:52 +0100, Robert Norris wrote:
>> > >
>> > > From: jack.fitzsimons at ntlworld.com
>> > > To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>> > > Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:13:56 +0100
>> > > Subject: [Talk-GB] phone boxes used for other purposes
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I’m sure it must have been discussed before but how do I map a K6
>> > > booth
>> > > with no phone currently used for another purpose? I visited two
>> > > today
>> > > intending to get the phone numbers but discovered they were both
>> > > local
>> > > information points.
>> > >
>> > I've mapped a few that I've seen used as book shares like
>> > amenity=book_exchange, although I'd use amenity=public_bookcase now.
>> >
>> > Indeed the last one I remember doing has been kindly updated:
>> >
>> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3775804762/history
>> >
>> > For your case I'd probably use some form of tourism tag too (see http
>> > ://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dinformation)
>> >
>> I've mapped one which has a defibrillator in it as building=phone_box,
>> medical=defibrillator.
>>
>> On the subject of defibrillators, they could make a useful GB mapping
>> project. They need surveying, but it is something that both urban and
>> rural mappers could get out and find on the lighter evenings.
>>
>> Phil (trigpoint)
>>
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