[Talk-ht] PAHO Medical Facilities

[Kate Chapman]

Karl,

Looks good to me, thanks for your help.

-Kate

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Karl Guggisberg
<karl.guggisberg at guggis.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a first mapper has started to import a chunk from the PAHO/WHO dataset as
> described in
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Status/Hospitals#Importing_the_PAHO.2FWHO_dataset
>
> Does everybody agree that we can start importing the data provided by Kate
> on github ? Tag names OK? Values OK?
>
> Regards
> Karl
>
> ===============================================================
> Hi,
>
> thanks Kate for the data.
>
> We maintain a section on the OSM wiki related to importing and cleaning up
> health facilities in the OSM database.
> I've added the information about the PAHO/WHO list too
>   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Status/Hospitals
>
> I've proposed an approach for importing the PAHO/WHO list, see
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Status/Hospitals#Importing_the_PAHO.2FWHO_dataset
>
> I think we should discuss it first before we actually start working on it.
> If we agree on how to do it we can launch the task and track its progress.
> See
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Status/Hospitals#Importing_the_PAHO.2FWHO_dataset
> provides a link to the discussion page
>
> Regards
> Karl
>
> Am 03.02.2010 08:07, schrieb Kate Chapman:
>
> 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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