[Talk-ht] PAHO Medical Facilities imported into OSM

[Karl Guggisberg]

Hi,

we've completed the first import of the PAHO master list of medical 
facilities into the OSM database. We've imported it semi-automatically 
and we've merged already mapped hospitals with the information provided 
by PAHO in order to avoid duplicates. In particular we've tried to match 
the PAHO records with records formerly collected by Sahana.

*Summary*:
* imported 1104 health facilities from PAHO
* resolved conflicts with already mapped hospitals in OSM
* identified 56 potential duplicates (with two or more potentially 
identical facilities but different PAHO ids) in the master list, see 
this report for more details:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Status/Hospitals#Duplicates
* didn't import 3 chunks (~ 150 facilities) because their position 
looked strange when we had a closer look at the data.

*More info*:
* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Status/Hospitals

*Next steps*:
* to improve rendering of the facilities on OSM maps (in particular on 
Haiti specific maps)
* to implement scripts which propagate updates in the PAHO master list 
to the OSM database
* to import v2 of the PAHO master list using these scripts
* later: to convert the tags used to tags compatible with  the upcoming 
Humanitarian Data Model

@Kate: I've submitted four issues in your issue tracking sheet. Could 
you check the potential duplicates and the issues with the facilities 
lumped together in clusters at the same position?

Regards
Karl

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