[OSGeo Africa] Health Care Facilities

[Suzi Crossley]

Sorry I meant public sector facilities and stated run health facilities.
What I have been able to get from Walter served the purpose as I had
collected quite a bit of the data, made a kmz and used the two resources
together to get the info needed.  I have also just used a centroid of the
area given as it is for label purpose and general distribution of facility.
I am not doing any indepth analysis.  Merely collection of what is available
to build up my own databases. 

 

Thanks for the response. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Calle Hedberg
Sent: 01 July 2013 09:51 AM
To: 'Africa local chapter discussions'
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Health Care Facilities

 

"Clinics and hospitals" is vague - do you mean PUBLIC SECTOR clinics and
hospitals?

 

Also - what's your accuracy requirements? (I'm asking because while I do
have co-ordinates for around 99% of all public sector clinics and hospitals,
about 10% of them are inaccurate for a variety of reasons - and during the
15 years I've been collating this data, there's been no standardisation in
terms of e.g. taking a position at the entrance gate versus the middle of
the building and so forth)

 

Regards

Calle

 

From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Suzi Crossley
Sent: 01 July 2013 09:03 AM
To: 'Africa local chapter discussions'
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Health Care Facilities

 

Hello Calle 

 

Thanks for responding - more looking at clinics and hospitals.  But any data
would be good as I can then assemble and share for all 

 

 

 

 

 

From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Tim Sutton
Sent: 20 June 2013 07:31 PM
To: chedberg at telkomsa.net; Africa local chapter discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Health Care Facilities

 

Hi

 

 

 

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Calle Hedberg <chedberg at telkomsa.net>
wrote:

Suzi,

Depends on your specific requirements:

1. Are you looking for public sector facilities or private for-profit
facilities or private/NGO not-for-profit facilities or all three?

2. What's you accuracy requirements? Or to say it differently, can you live
with a small sub-set of facilities having approximated co-ordinates that
were either collected in the mid-90's (i.e. probably using the Cape Datum)
scaled off maps?

Regards
Calle

-----Original Message-----
From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Suzi Crossley
Sent: 20 June 2013 11:02 AM
To: 'Africa local chapter discussions'
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Health Care Facilities

Hello All

Does anyone know of OS data for all the healthcare facilities, clinics,
hospitals etc in SA?  Or even just the EC for now?

 

You can ask Mark Herringer who has being building konekta
(http://www.konekta.info/) a site to map health care facilities (globally).
I dont think he has by any means a comprehensive database yet but he would
be very interested to collaborate or hear from anyone who can point him
along his path. The data is all free (ultimately it will make its way into
OSM).

 

His address is mark at konekta.info 

 

 

Regards

 

Tim

 




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