Locations of gendarmerie brigades and police stations in OpenStreetMap

Daily extract from the **brigades of gendarmerie and police stations ** in metropolitan France present in the OpenStreetMap (OSM) open and collaborative database [1].

The layer is available in MAGOSM
— accessible via public WMS and WFS services
— viewable, searchable and downloadable via the carto portal
— analysable over the last 30 days via the Change Tracking Portal

Data model
The OSM attributes used to filter the data are:

• amenity=police

For information we distinguish the different types of objects by the following attribute:

• police:FR=gendarmerie
• font:FR=police
• font:FR=police_municipale

A particular effort has been made by the community to inform the following attributes:

• name=*
• operator =*
• Ref:FR:GendarmerieNationale=*
• official_name=*
• seasonal=*
• phone=*
• fax=*
• email=*
• opening_hours=*
• Wheelchair=*

We find in the layer all the objects concerned whether they are mapped in the form of a node, path or relationship in OSM. For polygons and multi-polygons, the geometry provided corresponds to the centroid, the original geometry is available in EWKT format via the attribute ‘osm_original_geom’ and the original type in a column ‘osm_type’.

Additional OSM attributes have been selected to enrich the main tags.
All attributes prefixed by “osm” (e.g. osm_user, osm_id...) are common properties similar to meta-data on the OSM object.

More information about:

• the data model specific to gendarmerie brigades and police stations on the OSM Wiki page — FR:Tag:amenity=police [2]
• the #ProjetOSMduMois of November 2018 (theme: National Gendarmerie) on the OSM Wiki page — FR:Project of the month/National Gendarmerie [3].
• the general OSM data model is documented on the OSM Wiki page — Map Elements [4].
• the modes and frequencies of use and combination of different attributes within the OSM community on the TagInfo France service [5]

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:Page_principale
[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:Tag:amenity%3Dpolice
[3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:Project_of_the_month/Gendarmerie_nationale
[4] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:%C3%89l%C3%A9ments_cartographiques
[5] https://taginfo.openstreetmap.fr

Credits
© OpenStreetMap contributors http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

This data is produced collaboratively under ODbL license which requires identical sharing and attribution mention “© OpenStreetMap contributors under ODbL license” in accordance with http://osm.org/copyright