[Imports] US - HIDFL (DHS) Hospital Import

[Mike Thompson]

Thanks for the additional information William!

On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 1:08 PM William Edmisten <wcedmisten at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
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.

>
>
> 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.
>
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.

>
>
> To the point on VAL_DATE, I believe checking the hospital website
> mitigates this issue also.
>
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.

Mike
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