On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 6:27 PM William Edmisten <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > My name is William Edmisten (wcedmisten). I've been mapping in OSM for > almost a year, but have no relevant affiliation with any other > organizations. > > Hi William, thanks for engaging with the community! > I am writing to propose an import of the HIDFL Hospital dataset > <https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/hospitals/explore> > (8,013 records), and to discuss possible ways in which this dataset could > be used. > > I've documented some details about the Hospital dataset and how it might > be applied on this wiki page > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HIFLD/Public_Health>. > It appears, as I think Marc has pointed out, that you have already started this import. You need to get community buy-in *before* starting to actually load data into OSM via an import. If this is the case, please stop the import until the community has had a chance to comment on your proposal. Also, I don't see this import listed in the Import Catalog: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue You, and others who participate in the import, must use an account other than their regular OSM account, e.g. for you that might be wcedmisten_imports > > Looking at the archives, the entire HIDFL dataset was previously discussed > here in October 2022, but I would like to specifically focus on the > Hospitals dataset. One of the previous concerns was that the scope of HIDFL > overall was too broad, so I would like to narrow the discussion to this > single dataset for now. > > I believe this data is appropriate for OSM, and can be verified > independently of the dataset, making it a good choice for import or for > reference while mapping. In particular, hospitals' websites can be used to > verify most or all of the data aggregated here. > I have some serious concerns about the likely quality of this dataset. The metadata says that the dataset was "geocoded", while that can have different meanings, what it means here is likely that a list of hospitals with addresses was fed to a computer program that matched them up with an address (reference) database to obtain coordinates. While this seems simple, a lot can go wrong. For example, a transposition of a digit in a hospital's zip code can cause it to be placed 100's of miles away from its true location. Duplicates are another problem, I have checked a few hospitals in my local area, and I have already found two sets of duplicates (cases where one entity purchased another, and now they both show up in the dataset at essentially the same location). While the metadata says that the dataset was updated in January of 2023, I don't think that means that a complete update was done, just that those maintaining the data changed something at that time. Thus, large parts of this dataset could be out of date. Some of the validation dates (VAL_DATE) are from 2013, 10 years ago! Also, the VAL_METHOD for many records is listed simply as "IMAGERY", and while a large general hospital is probably obvious from imagery, this is not necessarily true for a smaller facility. I would like to see at least a sample of the data converted to the OSM schema. Mike > >
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