[Talk-ht] PAHO Medical Facilities imported into OSM

Margie Roswell mroswell at gmail.com
Sun Feb 7 20:46:04 GMT 2010


Can you by chance detail how to do a semi-automatic import like this?
I'd like to have this skillset.

Thanks,

Margie

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Karl Guggisberg
<karl.guggisberg at guggis.ch> wrote:
> 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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