Kolloquium Geoinformatik Building a baseline of health facility data in OpenStreetMap
- Date in the past
- Monday, 10. February 2020, 14:15
- Im Neuenheimer Feld 348, Lecture Hall, Room 015
- Markus Herringer, healthsites.io, Amsterdam, NL
The Global Healthsites Mapping Project is building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap. We believe that by leaning on the methods and infrastructure of OpenStreetMap, baseline health facility data can be maintained.
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Im Neuenheimer Feld 348, Lecture Hall, Room 015
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Saving health facility data to OpenStreetMap improves interoperability and harnesses the contributions of citizens, academic institutions, businesses and organisations who use the data in their daily operations. In addition to cost savings, improved health facility data supports epidemic preparedness, immunization programs, disaster response, Maternity care and Health capacity planning.
When a natural disaster or disease outbreak occurs there is a rush to establish accurate health care location data that can be used to support people on the ground. This has been demonstrated by events such as the Haiti earthquake and the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. As a result, valuable time is spent establishing accurate and accessible baseline health data. Healthsites establishes this data and the tools necessary to upload, manage and make this data easily and readily accessible.