[Talk-GB] NHS England open data - hospitals

[Philip Barnes]

One green pin in my (Leicester) area, an eye hospital which had been
mapped as an optician which is minor and easiy fixed.

Is there any similar data for Wales?

Phil (trigpoint)


On Wed, 2021-01-27 at 15:46 +0000, Russ Garrett wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've been doing a little bit of investigatory work into the open data
> which NHS England makes available (under OGL), with some view of
> looking at the feasibility of an import:
> https://www.nhs.uk/about-us/nhs-website-datasets/
> 
> I'm looking first at using this data to improve the mapping of
> hospitals in England which are marked as "NHS Sector" in the
> hospitals
> data file. This data should allow us to spot hospitals which are not
> mapped, and improve the ones which are with website, phone number,
> operator, and address data.
> 
> You can see the map of running osm_conflate against this data here
> (this shows the changes which it would make, with green pins being
> additions and blue pins being modifications):
> https://render.githubusercontent.com/view/geojson?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/russss/nhs_osm_conflate/main/diffs/osm_uk_hospitals_conflated.json
> 
> My initial impression here is that this is extremely good at spotting
> unmapped local hospitals, of which there are quite a few (some of
> which I have already fixed manually). It's less accurate at correctly
> identifying existing hospitals in urban situations where there might
> be several on the same campus.
> 
> We may be able to fix this by pre-tagging these existing hospitals
> with the NHS organisation ID before running an import (we'll need a
> ref tag for this), we may need to manually check each change, or we
> can simply use this data to guide manual tagging.
> 
> I'll continue looking into this, but I thought people might want to
> take a look at the results so far.
> 
> Cheers,
>