Questions & Answers - Health Facilities Import

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  1. Thank you for your interesting talk: I read in another place that you, with RMSI, use AI-Road tracing in mapping projects in India. Is this something you want to include in the project with the helath care imports? And if yes, how could this work?
  2. You mentioned converting data to GEoJSON before being imported. Why that?
  3. How do you do the conflation with data that already exists in OSM, to make sure there are no doubles? How many health facilities were already on OSM? Do you also look at health facilities that are on OSM but missing from the official dataset, to see if they’ve been closed, etc.? (moved from below) Is all diff’ing (of the incoming gov data) manual or do you have tools?
  4. How clean/reliable/complete is the gov data?
  5. In NIN healthcare dataset I found ~1800 hospitals (district, sub and categorized according to bed size) whereas in OSM 33.5k (6/8/2020, amenity=hospital). Maybe you can elaborate on this discrepancy and challenges of matching the indian healthcare system scheme with osm tagging scheme.
    1. (First thanks for your intersting talk, it is very valuable to me as I conduct some analysis on healthcare access in India. Sorry if I missed it in the beginning when you were clarifying sources for the import. I had a look into the NIN health facility dataset. )
  6. Could you please explain what is the exact meaning of healthcare=centre? Are there physicians/doctors in them? Were health facilities without doctors included in the import? And if yes how were they tagged? (There was a recent discussion on the tagging list which lead to an increased use of the recently created amenity=health_post tag to cover such entities).
  7. Good to see that health facilities in India is improved,it will be good if all the rural areas are covered
  8. India is a huge country - how do you ensure you will find local contributors to validate and perform the import?
  9. You showed an example (JOSM screenshot) where healthcare=centre tag was added, but amenity=hospital was removed. Why was the amenity tag removed?
  10. Have you collaborated with Healthsites (www.healthsites.io) at all?
    1.    ^^^^ to question author: Do Healthsites add data at all? Everytime I check things like phone nr, website etc are empty.
  11. did u have special autorisation from the governement or Ministry of Health to include all data in osm ?
  12. I’m working on the same project in my country and I’m adding one by one and it is more secure , what di u think ?
  13. Great talk, thankyou :-)
  14. Good to see that rmsi is improving the heatlth facilities in india :-)

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