Hi All, I converted the PAHO medical facilities data into OSM format. http://github.com/wonderchook/PAHO_to_OSM. I also included the rules file. If anyone needs files in another format or anything let me know.
I chunked it up into 26 files so people could work on it. The tags associated with each facility are ones that are important to WHO/PAHO. We want to make sure we include data that is going to be important to these organizations. They are willing to contribute data back to us from the ground, but we need to include information that relates to humanitarian efforts. In my experience working with this data there have been many circumstances where the OSM positional accuracy is better, something to keep in mind when resolving the discrepancies between the two datasets. The most important information is the health_facility:paho_id that is the universal ID for medical facilities in Haiti and will allow OSM data to interact more easily with other systems. This is our first attempt at using the Humanitarian OSM tags in the wild: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags We made every attempt to continue to use already existing tags. The wiki might need to be cleaned up a bit to match what is in the .osm files. To summarize: 1. We want OSM to be the source of this type of data 2. In order to be the source we need to include info of importance to NGOs 3. Yes the Humanitarian Tags are a draft but we need to start somewhere. 4. If there is something drastically wrong let me know and we'll figure out how to fix it. I saw emails flying by regarding workflow I'm not sure the best way to figure out who is working on what. Thanks for all your assistance and hardwork. Kate Chapman User:wonderchook _______________________________________________ Talk-ht mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ht
