[Talk-ht] PAHO Medical Facilities

[Kate Chapman]

Jean-Guilhem,

I'm not sure which makes more sense to people.  The amenity= sounds
weird to me but I'm up for suggestions.  I was just thinking that
maybe there are health facilities that don't fit with the amenity tag
so it would make more sense to do something else.

Anyone else have any thoughts?

Kate

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <jgc at arkemie.com> wrote:
> Kate, thanks.
>
> But there is no "amenity=..." anymore ? Only
> "health_facility_type=dispensary" ?
>
> (I thought it would be "amenity=dispensary".)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jean-Guilhem
>
>
> Kate Chapman a écrit :
>
> Karl: Your suggestions make sense.  I changed to
> health_facility:organisation and source:health_facility.
>
> Jean-Guilhem: you are right I made a dispensary tag instead.  Thank you.
>
> I apologize for not putting this in the bulk import area of the wiki
> it did not occur to me it was a bulk import because the data really
> needs to be gone through by hand.  Though since it technically is an
> import it should be noted somewhere.
>
> Thanks everyone for your suggestions, if anyone wants edit capability
> for the github repo let me know and I can do that.
>
> -Kate
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Karl Guggisberg
> <karl.guggisberg at guggis.ch> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> two questions regarding tagging in the current OSM files
> (http://github.com/wonderchook/PAHO_to_OSM):
> * could we replace the currently used "organisation" tag with
> "operator"? Quote from the OSM Map Features list:
>   "The operator tag can be used to name a company or corporation who's
> responsible for a certain object or who operates it."
>   Alternatively, could we replace "organisation" with
> "health_facility:organisation"
>
> * could we replace "source" with "source:health_facility"? OSM objects
> in Haiti now are based on different sources. We have tmaintain
> attributions for image sources, public maps, and other datasets (Sahana).
>
> 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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