[OSM-talk-ie] Mapping hospital departments

[Donal Hunt]

For hospitals that are all one building (or sections of a multi-building -
is that a term??), it sounds like it's a case of using the indoor mapping
scheme:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Indoor_Mapping

And then display depends on what is most appropriate:


   - Universidad Pública de Navarra - Aulario in OSM
   <https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/42.80033/-1.63669> in OpenLevelUp!
   <http://openlevelup.net/?lat=42.800434&lon=-1.637290&z=19&t=0&lvl=0&tcd=1&urd=0&bdg=0&pic=0&nte=0>
   - Universidad Pública de Navarra - Biblioteca in OSM
   <https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/42.79956/-1.63596> in OpenLevelUp!
   <http://openlevelup.net/?lat=42.799604&lon=-1.636099&z=19&t=0&lvl=0&tcd=1&urd=0&bdg=0&pic=0&nte=0>


OpenLevelUp looks great for displaying multi-floor buildings.

Donal


On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 at 16:24, Colm Moore <colmmoore72 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> Over time, I've mapped parts of various hospitals. A map is only useful if
> it serves its end users. Hospitals are big places, so mapping as many of
> the individual buildings and departments is useful.
>
>
> 1. One of the things that I've found is that hospitals are very poor at
> mapping (and signing) themselves (I've mentioned it to some of them & HSE).
> These maps:
> https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/list/5/cancer/archive/mwcc/campus-map.pdf
> and this
> https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/list/5/cancer/archive/mwcc/hospital-map.pdf
> of University Hospital Limerick are quite poor and don't really look like
> this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/45766917#map=16/52.6343/-8.6527
>
> 2. To some degree or other, the layout of some hospitals facilitate
> mapping individual departments, as each department is a separate building:
> * Altnagelvin Hospital, Derry
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/123387829#map=16/54.9864/-7.2916
> * Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/32063615#map=17/53.32615/-6.31889
> * St. Vincent's, Dublin
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8106524#map=17/53.31685/-6.21267
> * St. James's, Dublin
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/32015912#map=18/53.34085/-6.29308
>
>
> 3. However, most of Beaumont Hospital, Dublin is just one building
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/642893440#map=18/53.39078/-6.22300
>
>
> I've done some experimentation:
>
> * building=hospital does work, but means a building on top of a building
> and is poor mapping: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/642893439
>
> *  building=hospital as a node doesn't work:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6034491515
> *  building=roof works, but is only applicable to certain cases:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/316698399
>
>
> Any thoughts on the best way of mapping hospital departments?
>
>
> Colm
>
>
>
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