[Talk-ht] Version 4 of Master list of Haiti Health Facilities available + real time info soon

[Karl Guggisberg]

Hi,

I've been in touch with the people at TRAVAX and we have to distinguish 
between their master data set and the master data set maintained by PAHO
(the list we've been importing so far). TRAVAX won't replace the PAHO 
list, they "emphatically don't want to do so", as Bill from Shoreland 
put it. The TRAVAX and the PAHO model isn't fully compatible yet (some 
minor issues, missing PCODE for instance, differnt hospital type 
classification). As far as OSM is concerned, we should best stick with 
the PAHO list for a couple of versions. I'll continue to work on this.

Personally, I don't see value in copying real time information about bed 
availability into OSM. I'm not going to be involved in it.

Regards
Karl

Am 17.02.2010 18:58, schrieb Jean-Guilhem Cailton:
> Hi,
>
> Seen on 
> http://sites.google.com/a/netspective.org/haiti-health-facilities/home:
>
> **** Version 4 of the master list now available in Files & Documents 
> <http://sites.google.com/a/netspective.org/haiti-health-facilities/files> 
> (released: 16 February 2010) ****
>
>
> Also, real time information, including bed availability and other 
> information intended for people on the ground (and fed by SMS and 
> other ways), is going to be available shortly (at most in the next 24 
> hours, or so).
>
> An example with current data can be seen at https://www.travax.com/m
> (complete information form draft for a facility available on request)
>
> The data will be available as .CSV downloads.
>
>
> >From an example request for information for an emergency situation in 
> Jacmel I just ran across on a Haitian forum, I can tell (just in case 
> it would not be obvious to everybody) that if there was an easily 
> accessible way to display this information on a map, it could be 
> extremely useful.
>
> Do you think OpenStreetMap could provide an element of answer on this 
> ? (like Jan's map maybe, or OpenStreetBugs/OSE style (which has more 
> flexible popup size, maybe) ?)
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jean-Guilhem
>
>
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