On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net> wrote: >> emergency vehicles >> shouldn't be overriding this, usually these bridges really and truly >> are not usable. >Drivers of emergency vehicles shouldn't be using OSM for routing >purposes. And people who don't know the area where they are driving >shouldn't be driving emergency vehicles. Certainly not people who >don't even know what bridges are safe to drive on! > >I don't know how it in other jurisdictions, but no one was allowed to >drive the ambulance or fire truck where I volunteered until they >filled out a blank map with all the street names.
In our jurisdiction, we have 370,000 roads and 800+ bridges. We basically use a whole bunch of radio dispatchers looking at live edited maps for routing. Just building a routing network has been a massive undertaking (and, unfortunately, OSM is nowhere close to sufficient in our area right now). Brett Lord-Castillo Information Systems Designer/GIS Programmer St. Louis County Police Office of Emergency Management 14847 Ladue Bluffs Crossing Drive Chesterfield, MO 63017 Office: 314-628-5400 Fax: 314-628-5508 Direct: 314-628-5407 _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
