[OSM-talk] Mapping Homes for the Elderly (hot targets of COVID-19)

Jean-Guilhem Cailton jgc at arkemie.com
Wed Mar 25 10:22:51 UTC 2020


Hi All,

Terrible body counts in homes for the elderly (« EHPAD, ou Maisons de
retraite » in French) are starting to appear in news headlines in France
and Spain now, a few days after Italy…

This is a follow up to my previous message (that did not make it back to
my input mailbox):
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2020-March/084462.html

It has since been independently confirmed, by Nicolas Moyroud, a long
time leading OSM contributor in Southern France, that Homes for the
Elderly are a highly sensitive theme in the context of COVID-19, well
worth of urgent care from OSM mappers.

Nicolas reported that Homes for the Elderly had been identified by
Firefighters as a theme that needed improvement in the cartography of
the alert system.
Just imagine emergency rescuers being called in for urgent help, and
having to waste time geolocating where the call comes from…

His email can be found online here:
https://listes.openstreetmap.fr/wws/arc/local-herault/2020-03/msg00004.html

And this is in Southern France, probably one of the areas in OSM
database with most details, as can be measured by the size of OSM data
download for an area.
(In case this can be taken as an indicator of the coverage of this type
of amenities in OSM…)


So PLEASE also take care of mapping Elderly Homes, as this may help to
rescue aged persons in your local area or country…


To make it clear, in case of potential « losses in translation », this
is about collective institutions that house persons of high age. [1]
(Not about individual houses, which would be private information).

(See OSM tags such as nursing_home, as amenity or social_facility, with
social_facility:for=senior.)

Take good care of yourselves, and of our Elders as much as you can,

Jean-Guilhem

http://twitter.com/jgVisov

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing_home_care

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