How OSM stopped me from caring for the defibrillators.
Posted by philippec on 25 November 2022 in English.The mapping of AEDs in Flanders is of poor quality. These last years I improved and corrected it. Mapping AEDs without mapillary is setting death traps. For this conviction I received insults, stupid comments and proposals.
We were a few hundred AEDs away from total coverage. I wanted to update OSM with notes asking for mapillary from the monthly official list. The community did not want this.
But that is not all.
When I have mapped an AED perfectly the mutilation begins.
They snap it to the wall, they add tags that they cannot explain.
They make the mapillary key unusable.
By doing so, they make my maintenance work difficult.
This is also sad for the few good men who mapped well.
Discussion
Comment from Friendly_Ghost on 25 November 2022 at 23:29
I’m curious as to what counts as mapping an AED perfectly means to you, and how that relates to other mappers’ ideas of mapping an AED perfectly.
There should be a way to standardise this, so not everyone has to have a different opinion on what it means to “map an AED perfectly”.
Comment from philippec on 28 November 2022 at 20:05
Outdoor AEDs count as an index of the quality of life in a city. Brussels only has one outside.
Comment from philippec on 28 November 2022 at 20:43
/* Defibrillators in Flanders outdoors or 24/7 and indoors with Mapillary */ [out:json][timeout:25]; {{geocodeArea:vlaanderen}}->.searchArea; ( node[“emergency”=”defibrillator”][“indoor”!=”yes”][“access”!=”private”]“mapillary”; node[“emergency”=”defibrillator”][“indoor”=”yes”][“access”!=”private”][“opening_hours”=”24/7”]“mapillary”; ); // print results out body; >; out skel qt;