[Talk-GB] Fire brigade and other emergency routes

[Simon Poole]

Am 25.08.2021 um 02:03 schrieb 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.

These do exist as commercial products.

Schutz und Rettung Zürich
https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/pd/de/index/schutz_u_rettung_zuerich.html
uses products based on OSM in their control center (not on vehicle
though) and have a lot of experience with using OSM in such a setting. I
can provide contacts if anybody is interested.

Simon

>
> 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 <mailto: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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