[Talk-GB] NHS England open data - hospitals

[Russ Garrett]

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 17:20, Tony Shield <tonyosm9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Green - Eccleston Health Centre. Several problems with the data - its
> not a hospital its a doctors surgery, it's already mapped as doctors
> with the name Eccleston Health Centre, the location is about 100m
> distant on Doctors Lane, the Post Code centroid has been used as the
> location; so not a good match.

This is an interesting one as it looks like it might provide some
secondary care services (the operator appears to be listed as
www.ascenti.co.uk), so it may be strictly correct even though it's not
useful from an OSM perspective.

We also spotted that there are some (but by no means all) standalone
outpatient clinics listed, which should be correctly tagged as
amenity=clinic, so this also complicates any plans for an auto-import.

It seems like most of the positions are fairly accurate, but clearly
some aren't. I have spotted a few which could have been derived from
postcode centroids.

Russ



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