[Talk-ht] new version of the Master Health Facility List (v2) (was [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] Location of IDP, Hospital and Police facilities])

Jean-Guilhem Cailton jgc at arkemie.com
Fri Feb 5 18:02:53 GMT 2010


Ok. Entered a request for correction of accented characters in 
http://sites.google.com/a/netspective.org/haiti-health-facilities/home/master-spreadsheet-discussion

Jean-Guilhem

Karl Guggisberg a écrit :
> Hi
>
> the master list has been converted into OSM files and posted on github 
> and the converted OSM files already include strange charactes, i.e. 
> <tag k="name" v="CDS de Las Cahobas (UnitT de Maladie Infectueuse)"/> 
> in 
> http://github.com/wonderchook/PAHO_to_OSM/blob/master/medical_facilities8.osm 
> (UnitT should be Unité).
>
> I'd suggest not to fix spelling in OSM but rather run a second, 
> automatic and improved data propagation step after the first import. 
> If necessary, names should be fixed in the master list. We can then 
> make sure that accents in the master list are properly converted into 
> UTF-8 and we can then update the names of the health facilities. 
> Depending on how the set of Humantiarian Tags evolves, we will also 
> have to transform the currently used tags for health facilities. But 
> again, we should do this with scripts once the relevant OSM objects 
> have the PAHO id assigned.  Or in short: (1) import and deduplicate 
> manually,  (2) update with scripts.
>
> Regards
> Karl
>
>
> Am 05.02.2010 17:56, schrieb Jean-Guilhem Cailton:
>> +1 from me, especially as, at first sight, the changes do not look 
>> very widespread.
>>
>> Regarding automatic updates, I hope it will be possible to be careful 
>> with accented characters.
>> For example "PFre RenT Blot" should obviously be "Père René Blot" 
>> (seeing also similar substitutions in other words).
>> I am correcting now as I run across this kind of things (while I 
>> think about it).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jean-Guilhem
>>  
>>
>> Karl Guggisberg a écrit :
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> we have imported and merged  ~50% of the health facilities in v1 of 
>>> this master list, see
>>>   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Status/Hospitals
>>>
>>> I suggest that we finish the import of v1 and then try to run 
>>> automatic updates for v2, using the PAHO id as key for matching OSM 
>>> objects and PAHO records.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 05.02.2010 16:39, schrieb nicolas chavent:
>>>> Hi there-
>>>>
>>>> Just checked the consistency of the PAHO DB in between the 2 
>>>> versions, fortunately stable-
>>>> PAHO schema is covered in the Hum Data Model - editing on-going.
>>>> URL:
>>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags/Humanitarian_Data_Model
>>>>
>>>> We then have to worry about the issues relating to db conflation.
>>>> Great to hear a status on this once this master has been scanned 
>>>> through.
>>>>
>>>> Best-
>>>> N
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton 
>>>> <jgc at arkemie.com <mailto:jgc at arkemie.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     -------- Message original --------
>>>>     Sujet : 	Re: [CrisisMappers] Location of IDP, Hospital and
>>>>     Police facilities
>>>>     Date : 	Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:48:16 -0500
>>>>     De : 	Nate Heard <nate.heard at gmail.com>
>>>>     <mailto:nate.heard at gmail.com>
>>>>     Répondre à : 	crisismappers at googlegroups.com
>>>>     <mailto:crisismappers at googlegroups.com>
>>>>     Pour : 	crisismappers at googlegroups.com
>>>>     <mailto:crisismappers at googlegroups.com>
>>>>
>>>>     	
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Hi Enrique,
>>>>      
>>>>     The PAHO site has a new version of the Master Health Facility
>>>>     List (v2):
>>>>     http://sites.google.com/a/netspective.org/haiti-health-facilities/home
>>>>      
>>>>     With regard to quality, the list is the best I know of.
>>>>     Nevertheless, it includes many rough coordinates and duplicate
>>>>     records resulting from the aggregation of data from multiple
>>>>     sources. As community members identify duplicates, improved
>>>>     coordinates or missing information, please send them to PAHO
>>>>     <http://sites.google.com/a/netspective.org/haiti-health-facilities/home/master-spreadsheet-discussion/submit-correction-or-issue> as
>>>>     this is the data set that is being maintained in direct support
>>>>     of Haiti's Ministry of Health. It contains the MOH codes
>>>>     that anchor Haiti's routine health information system and which
>>>>     will be used for long term reconstruction planning and
>>>>     implementation.
>>>>
>>>>     Regards,
>>>>     Nate
>>>>      
>>>>      
>>>>
>>>>     Nathan J. Heard, D.Sc.
>>>>     Public Health Analyst
>>>>
>>>>     Humanitarian Information Unit
>>>>
>>>>     U.S. Department of State, HeardNJ at state.gov
>>>>     <mailto:HeardNJ at state.gov>
>>>>
>>>>     ActioNet, _NHeard at actionet.com <mailto:NHeard at actionet.com>_
>>>>
>>>>     202.203.7788, http://hiu.state.gov/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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