<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thanks for the additional information William!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 1:08 PM William Edmisten <<a href="mailto:wcedmisten@gmail.com">wcedmisten@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I hope to
distinguish two different projects which I may have conflated in my
initial Wiki page: 1) using HIFDL Hospitals as reference material, but
not primary source, to find missing hospitals in OSM and 2) the actual
import of the HIFDL Hospitals dataset, which would rely on HIFDL as the primary source rather than as reference.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Are you therefore dropping the proposal for an import? It seems that if you are going to do all of this manually, there is no reason for an import. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div>I
do not believe 1) constitutes an import, because it is only using the
dataset as reference to find missing POIs, but using objectively
verifiable sources (each hospitals' website), similar to the workflow of
many "armchair" mappers. I believe this is a widely accepted practice
in the OSM community.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Your original email, and the wiki page that it cited, led me to believe that you intended to do an import, and thus the rules for imports would apply, and thus my comments.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br><br>To the point on VAL_DATE, I believe checking the hospital website mitigates this issue also.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>You might consider going to each state and getting its current list of licensed hospitals, this is what HIFLD does to build/maintain this dataset. This would avoid the issue of old data in the HIFLD dataset.</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div></div></div>