Announcement: AirRescueMap.org

I created a special map for Air Rescue Services, it’s in an early version available at

http://airrescuemap.org

I’m looking for feedback and hope that the map will motivate to map more and to harmonize the data. It’s not only using tags from OSM but also fetches data from Wikidata.

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Looks good (although I’m very surprised that there’s apparently nothing at all in either the US or UK?)

Could I suggest though that you add the option to also “Open in iD”?, as JOSM only would block a lot of mappers!

Could I suggest though that you add the option to also “Open in iD”?, as JOSM only would block a lot of mappers!

Thanks for the suggestion, but what would I actually open in iD? As far as I know it’s not possible to open the result of an overpass-Query in iD, is it?

Looks good (although I’m very surprised that there’s apparently nothing at all in either the US or UK?)

With the map I want to encourage mappers to add that data. Many of the air rescue services are mapped, but not tagged according to the scheme.

I just went to AirRescueMap, looked at a Base close to me:

, then tried opening it in JOSM & got:

Zooming in to the same area on iD, I get:

, which, to me at least, is a lot more usable! :grinning:

Of course, & I’ve just found ~8 bases in Australia that have to be fixed! :crazy_face:

There must be lots of Bases in both those countries though, so I wonder how they’re currently tagged? :thinking:

Yes, it is.

Once you zoom in on a spot using OT:

, then click on the Way #, that then opens in iD (I’m certain it used to offer options of either iD or JOSM though? :thinking:)

Interesting.
Is there a legend of what the different colors mean?

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Alternatively, opening the current viewport in ID is certainly a good start.

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The colors come from the brand or the operator from wikidata. It’s their brand colors.

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Nice work :+1:t2:

Would you mind answering my questions in the respective changeset discussion?

Sorry, maybe I’m being particularly dense this morning, but what’s a “viewport”? :thinking:

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“Viewport” in this context means “the area of the (slippy) map currently in view” or, in other words, setting bbox to match the corners of the map you’re looking at.

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Thanks, but when I drag the AirRescue map to the location that I want to view e.g. Australia, then “Open in Overpass”, it jumps back to Western Europe?

Yes, I believe that’s why an “Open iD to current view” option is being suggested as a new feature :slight_smile:

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This is fixed now.

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The feature is now available. :slight_smile:

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Thanks for those changes! :+1:

I see there’s now also an option to “Show missing information”, which then shows “Availability”. On the various Bases I’ve looked at, this is always returning “information missing”, so I’m guessing this is looking for the equivalent of “opening hours”?

Currently you’re right: It only checks for opening_hours. But of course this will change in the near future.