Mapping Hospitals in India

[naveenpf]

Hospital data is shared as ODGL.
Can we have a challenge in maproulette ?
https://data.gov.in/resources/national-hospital-directory-geo-code-and-additional-parameters-updated-till-last-month

[naveenpf]

https://github.com/healthsites is one way.
@smit1678 @dodobas

[Sowmya-Nayani]

I have Checked the hospital data of data.gov.in file and observed it needs cleaning before we add this information to the OSM.

I found it has around 30k of hospitals records:

Observation on Position Accuracy:
The position accuracy for the available hospital records is very poor and most of the Hospitals are falling more than 200mts away from the original position but this data has good quality of other information like email, contact information, website, type of services etc… which will be more valuable for OpenStreetMap and disaster rescue team across India.

We can add this information to OSM If we get support from the local Community for the position accuracy of the respected hospital.

Example for the Poor Position Accuracy : (more than 200mts )

Found many of the geo coordinates which are falling outside of india: Examples: negative coordinates

Identified few instances where multiple hospital records are falling on the same coordinates which is obviously not the actual position but we can rectify this issue with local knowledge or by implementing the reverse geocoding.

There are few records which have better position accuracy with respect of Existing OSM data and these can be updated to OSM using the conflation.

OSM Hospital Keys:

Here is the probable tagging scheme which can be used to improve the data of health facility in OSM-India.

Here are the keys which are following OSM Compatibility :

Government Attributes	OSM Key
District	addr:district
Hospital_Care_Type	amenity
Address_Original_First_Line	addr:full
Pincode	addr:postcode
State	addr:state
Hospital_Primary_Email_Id	contact:email
Mobile_Number	contact:mobile
Emergency_Services	emergency_telephone_code
Hospital_Fax	fax
Hospital_Name	name
Hospital_Category	operator:type
Telephone	phone
Website	website

These are the proposed keys for the Hospital data:

Government Attributes	Proposed OSM Key
Discipline_Systems_of_Medicine	medical_system
Facilities	health_facility:type
Specialties	healthcare:speciality
Emergency_Num	emergency_telephone_code=*
Tollfree	contact:tollfree_line=*
Helpline	contact:helpline=*
Hospital_Secondary_Email_Id	contact:alt_email=*
Number_Private_Wards	capacity:rooms=  (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:capacity)

Need Clarification:
Few of the values of the health specialties are exceeding the char limit in OSM (225char). In that case can we replace the value with “multi-speciality” or do we need to retain with only the major treatments?

Please share your thoughts and suggestions on OSM tagging (India Specific Tagging) for the health facility so that we can add this information into OSM .

[Sowmya-Nayani]

Hello Everyone,
I am happy to announce that i have created the maproulette challenge to improve the hospital data for Hyderabad for the first 100 records
https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/8000 .

let’s improve the hospital data of Hyderabad together. Happy mapping :)

[Sowmya-Nayani]

Hi All,

Please find the tagging schema for the above Hospital data sets.

1. These tags indicates the general tags

2. These tags represents the main facility or function of the healthcare:

3. Tagging for the Facility and Specialty of the healthcare:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:healthcare#Specialities_for_healthcare.3Dclinic

4. Records Excluded from the Data-set:

Please Share you thoughts on the Tagging scheme.

Thank You
Happy Mapping.

[naveenpf]

India Health Facilities Import OSM wiki

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India_Health_Facilities_Import

https://twitter.com/Zjwarie/status/1279386383161995264

[naveenpf]

ORF
https://www.orfonline.org/research/42617-free-and-open-source-software-for-public-health-information-systems-in-india/