[HOT] WHO Healthcare Data

[Pierre Béland]

Thanks Clifford.
  
Pierre 

      De : Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
 À : Jaakko Helleranta <jaakko at helleranta.com> 
Cc : Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr>; "HOT at OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)" <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
 Envoyé le : Lundi 27 avril 2015 18h58
 Objet : Re: [HOT] WHO Healthcare Data
   
I just converted it to an osm [1] file for JOSM. Many of the nodes appear to hit the sides of mountains, a fair distance from nearby villages. Of course looking at the nodes in towns needs local review to verify if 1) the node is positioned accurately and 2) is the location a health facility. 
Looking at just one node, listed as a primary health care facility, it was 150 meters from a hospital and about 75 from two different pharmacies. 
I don't recommend importing until more review.
Clifford
[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/es7ijveq1orh07d/npl_hltfac_DoH_WHO_wgs84.osm?dl=0
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Jaakko Helleranta <jaakko at helleranta.com> wrote:

Yes, and yes to Pierre's notes on license and accuracy evaluation!
This reminds me of where HOT started and the health facility import to OSM after the Haiti quake of 2010. That resulted in some good data but also some horrible crap in the database (having lived and mapped there for 3 years) that has wasted a huge amount of time later on (when trying to figure out how to fix it) and still clutters the Haiti map in some places in a rather ugly, by now a good amount outdated and also at times pretty significantly inaccurate way (+/- 2km not being uncommon). 
Best intentions and horrible outcomes do at times go hand in hand. That's not the end of things in itself -- but we need to learn from experience especially when it's been significantly sub-optimal.
This said, locals / people with sound local knowledge need to evaluate accuracy.
Cheers,-Jaakko

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:

arun
Important to verify the opendata license. There are often restrictions and we cannot import unless a signed agreement. Also some evaluation has to be made about the quality of the data. Nama and Kathmandu Living Lab folks would be the best persons to answer that.
  
Pierre 

      De : Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com>
 À : "HOT at OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)" <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
 Envoyé le : Lundi 27 avril 2015 13h58
 Objet : Re: [HOT] WHO Healthcare Data
   
Source: https://data.hdx.rwlabs.org/dataset/nepal-health-facilities-cod


On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com> wrote:

Just received shapefile data for location of healthcare facilities in Nepal. The source is apparently WHO, and i'm trying to find the source link, but thought i'll pass it on anyway.
Data contains 8974 points with attributes of facility type (hospital, health post, health center and a few others), district name, village council name and code.

Shapefiles: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r7gug1x6wt4hzde/WHO%20HEALTH%20CARE%20DATA.zip?dl=0
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