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 -- “Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain.” Transparency International https://www.transparency.org/whatwedo/publication/preventing_corruption_in_humanitarian_operations
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