[Talk-GB] Q4 2020 Quarterly Project: Defibrillators

[Donald Noble]

Hello list,

I have a couple of queries about the Q4 project to map defibrillators.

Firstly, I have seen a few buildings that have an AED pictogram sign
outside, suggesting that there is a defibrillator inside. Is this
considered sufficient 'on the ground' evidence to add to the map. These are
often locations that are noted up on the Survey Me! tool, but not always.

Secondly, I notice that Rob's otherwise excellent Survey Me! tool
occasionally incorrectly matches a point quite far away, and so flags up a
missing defibrillator, even though it is correctly mapped in the location
expected by the tool. An example of this in central Edinburgh
https://osm.mathmos.net/defib/progress/EH/#17/55.95237/-3.19051 where the
Scott Monument AED is mapped, but incorrectly matched to one in the station
(although the postcode for this locates it in the shopping centre!),
which I think is also incorrectly matched. Is there an easy way to resolve
these, or is this just too complex a problem? Either way, it just
highlights another reason why this too cannot be used to add data to OSM.
However, next time I am passing by the station, I think there is one
missing that I can add. This might fix this incorrect matching…

Cheers, Donald

On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 at 16:20, Gareth L <o.i at live.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello,
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> The UK quarterly project for Q4 has been selected as Defibrillators.
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_2020_Q4_Project:_Defibrillators
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> A check on taginfo shows there are 4181 nodes and ways with
> emergency=defibrillator in Great Britain. Reading
> https://cesafety.co.uk/list-of-public-access-defibrillators-across-the-uk
> from August 2019 reports that there are 5304 defibrillators in London alone.
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> The Q3 project on cycle infrastructure has some very encouraging results,
> which I’ll post about separately.
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> Best regards,
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> Gareth
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