[Talk-GB] Fire brigade and other emergency routes

[Steven Hirschorn]

Hi Luciën,

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.

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?


On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 at 13:32, Luciën Greefkes via Talk-GB <
talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> We were wondering: how is OSM Great Britain co-operating with emergency
> services? Is there a way of tapping into your resources?
>
> Thanks!
> Luciën
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