Apparently most of the listed defibs are called Public Access Defibs (PAD’s) for short. They are static in nature and are located in locked cabinets. The idea is that you call 999 (our emergency services number) and they check your location compared to one of these PAD’s. If you are near one they give you the keycode over the phone to gain access to it and they talk you through how to use it. However there are a number of problems with this approach.

1) Our addressing system is totally messed up due to the Royal Mail “owning” the address database(they see it as their property and have it copyrighted) Officials use a streetname and number, however none of the roads/streets are signposted and very few people display their numbers. Locals have always and will always use their townland. This is what led to this man waiting 40mins for help after experiencing chest pains - http://www.impartialreporter.com/news/roundup/articles/2015/08/20/409626-ambulance-apology-after-tourist-with-chest-pains-waits-40-minutes/ This incident was a complete and utter mess. There is a doctors surgery in the village of Brookeborough(2 miles away), a paramedic fast car station in Lisnaskea ( about 7 miles away), local hospital in Enniskillen (20 miles away) yet the ambulance was sent from Omagh, about 30miles away! 2) Mobile phone service is very hit and miss. In the countryside it is more miss than hit! If you are lucky enough to make an emergency call, you dare not move because you will be disconnected. 3) Once keycodes are made public these are easy targets for criminals and vandalism. These units are still quite costly, in the region of £600-1200 and are worth while targets. In fact we have already seen cabinets damaged by someone trying to break in, thankfully this one was alarmed.

Regarding an emergency button, I know OSMand has an emergency POI filter, which shows Police, Fire and other emergency POI’s. Im not sure if it shows defibs, I must check.

Thankyou for your feedback Warin61.

Would you happen to know about other tagging? Does it belong in OSM or not?

Id like to record other information such as Manufacturer, Model, Appox age, Serial number, Date which pads need to be replaced, date batteries are due for replacement. The availability and access to the AED.

At the moment I’m using aed:location to describe the location and operator to record who supplied and maintains the device.