[Talk-ht] PAHO Medical Facilities

Jean-Guilhem Cailton jgc at arkemie.com
Wed Feb 3 10:26:42 GMT 2010


Kate,

Another question, about your rule :
point,Categorie,DISP,amenity,pharmacy

This doesn't fit very well with my naive representation and 
understanding of what a "dispensary" and a "pharmacy" are, particularly 
in this context.

In the definition of my dictionary for "dispensary": "2. A public 
institution that dispenses medicines or medical aid", I imagine that the 
"medical aid" part generally predominates over "medicines" in Haiti, at 
least for the time being.


I also figure that the amenity=hospital red-cross rendering can easily 
be interpreted in relation with the location (ie one doesn't expect a 
large hospital in a small village).

By the way, how are "clinics" rendered ?

Of course, I am not familiar with tagging and rendering processes, so 
please accept my apologies if this is irrelevant.

Best regards,

Jean-Guilhem



Kate Chapman a écrit :
> Hi All,
>
> I converted the PAHO medical facilities data into OSM format.
> http://github.com/wonderchook/PAHO_to_OSM.  I also included the rules
> file.  If anyone needs files in another format or anything let me
> know.
>
> I chunked it up into 26 files so people could work on it.  The tags
> associated with each facility are ones that are important to WHO/PAHO.
>  We want to make sure we include data that is going to be important to
> these organizations.  They are willing to contribute data back to us
> from the ground, but we need to include information that relates to
> humanitarian efforts.  In my experience working with this data there
> have been many circumstances where the OSM positional accuracy is
> better, something to keep in mind when resolving the discrepancies
> between the two datasets.
>
> The most important information is the health_facility:paho_id that is
> the universal ID for medical facilities in Haiti and will allow OSM
> data to interact more easily with other systems.
>
> This is our first attempt at using the Humanitarian OSM tags in the
> wild: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags
>
> We made every attempt to continue to use already existing tags.  The
> wiki might need to be cleaned up a bit to match what is in the .osm
> files.
>
> To summarize:
>
> 1. We want OSM to be the source of this type of data
> 2. In order to be the source we need to include info of importance to NGOs
> 3. Yes the Humanitarian Tags are a draft but we need to start somewhere.
> 4. If there is something drastically wrong let me know and we'll
> figure out how to fix it.
>
> I saw emails flying by regarding workflow I'm not sure the best way to
> figure out who is working on what.
>
>
>
> Thanks for all your assistance and hardwork.
>
> Kate Chapman
> User:wonderchook
>
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