[OSM-talk] Tagging health facilities offering COVID testing

[Kathleen Lu]

Where I am, there is wide variety in what days/hours such sites are
available, whether they are free or have a cost, whether you need an
appointment, and how temporary they are. Some are only around for a few
weeks, and I would expect them to last maximum 1 yr. Further, the use is
very limited since international travel is way down (and you should not be
traveling if you suspect you may have covid!) Thus I do not think they are
good candidates for mapping into OSM. A separate layer overlaid on OSM on a
dedicated website seems better.

On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 7:52 AM Antonin Delpeuch (lists) <
lists at antonin.delpeuch.eu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if and how it would be appropriate to map COVID testing
> facilities. I have seen various national maps but given that they are
> especially useful during international travel, I think it would be very
> useful to have them in OSM.
>
> I have seen the use of "healthcare:speciality=covid-19", for instance on
> this node:
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7368671692
>
> But according to TagInfo there are only two uses of that tag value.
> Surely other people must have been tagging this by now, but how?
>
> Note that I am primarily interested in mapping the places where samples
> are collected, not the laboratories where the samples are actually
> analyzed. I think the former is more interesting for the general public.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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