[Talk-GB] OSMUK and the Open Geospatial Data Stimulus Fund

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Tue May 7 18:38:50 UTC 2019


7 May 2019, 20:22 by steven at stevenhorner.com:

> I imagine other Council's and public services have similar problems.
>
In Poland it turns out that there is no central fire hydrant database.

For obvious reasons this data is useful for firefighters.

Currently there is some infrastructure used by many firefighters that is
using OSM data (includes geocoding for emergency responders,
routing for firefighters[1] and locating for example fire hydrants near fire
- it seems to be this one: https://www.abakus.net.pl/products/eremiza.html <https://www.abakus.net.pl/products/eremiza.html> )

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.openstreetmap.dotevo.strazak <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.openstreetmap.dotevo.strazak&hl=pl>
is a specialized editor used solely to add fire hydrants, with some firefighters
contributing.

Person who worked on this project mentioned that some companies that
are maintaining hydrants started to use OSM data because in many cases
it is sole source of data that may help to locate where this things are.

(info based on presentation on State of The Map Poland 2018 
available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j8X5jhZVy4 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j8X5jhZVy4> but in Polish,
as presented by the company making said software)

[1] Because as of 2018 government agencies refused to release official road data 
for use by firefighters and/or low data quality of official data. During presentation
it was mentioned that it may be finally changing so I am not sure whatever OSM
data is still used for routing of at least some firefighters to emergencies.
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