COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, June 13, 2011

MOTION NO.9

MOTION: Councillor M. Duff

That this Council calls upon the Manager to make a report, upon consultation with the Chief Fire Officer of Dublin Fire Brigade, to confirm if all school location and addresses within the County are identified on GPS and to also confirm that all such schools are properly signposted and clearly identified, in order that fire and ambulance services can locate them speedily in case of emergency.

REPORT:

The Fire Service have been contacted and they set out the position as follows:-

The East Regional Control Centre (ERCC), Dublin Fire Brigade has an address gazetteer of all locations in Co. Dublin based on the An Post/Ordnance Survey GeoDirectory. The ERCC address gazetteer also has a large number of non addressable locations such as parks, motorways, bridges, townlands and general locality names.

All address locations on the ERCC address gazetteer have map coordinates associated with each record which help control operators identify locations using the control centre GIS Mapping system.

While the ERCC will endeavour to have all address locations on the address gazetteer, there can be gaps on the system for new builds and delays in GeoDirectory updating. In addition, the fire brigade (local fire station)  will also inform the ERCC if new buildings or facilities are known in each station area and these new locations or addresses will be added to the address gazetteer.

It should be noted that common issues may arise with location information such as spelling, pronunciation, official name versus the commonly used name and in some cases the use of Irish names. The ERCC will typically add an alias record for addresses in which there may have been a difficulty in identifying.  

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