I’m sure some of you have heard of a map that shows the locations of AEDs in Poland, available at https://aed.openstreetmap.org.pl. Thanks to community activism and a campaign among local government units, more than 3,000 device locations have been introduced. Encouraged by the success of the Polish map, we were then tempted to expand the project’s area of operation to increase community involvement in inputting AED device data into the OpenStreetMap database.

Currently, two members of the OSMP organisation tomczk and starsep are attempting to rewrite the existing version of the website using React technology and implement new functionalities. Their results to date are now available at https://openaedmap.org.

The website will be continuously developing. We would like to prepare websites with statistics broken down by country and make it possible to download data in the same way as in the Polish version of the website. The Colleagues are also working on improving and extending the form to allow not only the addition of device data from the page, but also editing.

Our dream is to expand the functionality with the ability to add photos of devices in order to verify them and make it easier to find them in the field. For which we do not have the technical resources at the moment, but hopefully we can acquire a technology partner to help us with this.

Unfortunately, due to the amount of work this project requires, we need Your help. If you have skills in the following areas please email us at: [email protected]

We need volunteers to support us with their React.js (front-end) and Python scripting skills, and because of the international character of the project we also need help with translations into languages other than English, with priority for French, Ukrainian, German and Spanish.

The Polish version of this entry is available at: OSMP page