[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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