COVID-19 - How to Map
Medical Facilities
Vaccination
Facilities for mass vaccination against the COVID-19 disease, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, can be tagged as follows:
- Physical facility according to local circumstanced, e.g. healthcare=centre, or using the top-level tag of the facility temporarily used for vaccination, e.g. when a stadium is used, keep leisure=stadium,
- healthcare:speciality=vaccination,
- vaccination=covid19 to specify the illness (Covid-19) against which is vaccinated.
Testing and Treatment
Treatment centers are generally found within established hospitals themselves.
For standalone testing facilities the tag healthcare=sample_collection was approved.
Some mappers appear to be using healthcare:speciality=covid19, in addition to temporary=yes, for Covid-19 related facilities. This should be avoided as it
- does not fit into the healthcare:speciality scheme naming treatment approaches and not illnesses
- is unspecific about the character of the facility.
Lockdowns, Closures and Openings
Current status
The infrastructure for Ça Reste Ouvert was shut down on September 30,2020.[1] It is still possible for users to deploy the infrastructure for supporting individual instances.
Contribution through dedicated sites
| Country/Region | URL |
|---|---|
| France (Original website) | CaResteOuvert.fr |
| Austria | BleibtOffen.at |
| Catalonia | EsObert.osmcatala.cat |
| Galicia | no specific URL |
| Germany | BleibtOffen.de |
| Ireland | StayingOpen.ie |
| Italia | RestiamoAperti.it |
| Spain | SigueAbierto.es |
| Switzerland | BleibtOffen.ch |
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Summary of main keys
| Tag | Description | Instances | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| access:covid19=no | Used for places that have no physical reception. | ||
| beard:covid19=no | Used for hairdressers that do not cut beards. | ||
| capacity:covid19=* | The maximum number of people allowed at the same time in a facility. | ||
| description:covid19=* | Information on access conditions of a facility without using a specific key. | ||
| delivery:covid19=yes/only/no | Used for places that offer a delivery service. | ||
| drive_through:covid19=yes/only/no | Used for places that have a drive through. | ||
| note:covid19=* | Mapping information for the OpenStreetMap community. | ||
| opening_hours:covid19=off/open/restricted/same/* | Opening hours of a facility. | ||
| takeaway:covid19=yes/only/no | Used for places that offer takeaway. | ||
| safety:mask:covid19=yes/given/sold/no |
|
For the value no, as of May 2020, all existing uses are at a facility that somewhat notoriously prohibits face masks, Perhaps this tag could be interpreted as "optional". | |
| safety:hand_sanitizer:covid19=* |
|
Keys accessibility
If a shop or restaurant continues to offer services like drive-through, delivery or take-away, you may use following tagging:
| Access and Schedule | Syntax | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Shop / restaurant not accessible to public | access:covid19=no
|
Depending on the country, certain categories of shops may have access restrictions (for example restaurants in France) and can only offer delivery or take-out. Some other businesses can also receive customers : |
| Place offering its services at given opening hours | opening_hours:covid19=open/same/restricted/opening hours details
|
Warning : Use the off value only if the business is completely stopped |
Keys delivery, takeaway, drive-through services
| Exceptional services offered | Syntax | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Delivery | delivery:covid19=yes/only
|
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| Takeaway | takeaway:covid19=yes/only
| |
| Drive Through | drive_through:covid19=yes/only
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Keys road network
- Closing paths and roads
Pop-up Bike Lane: cycle track and temporary infrastructures
There is a movement in the world of pop-up bike lane creations made with temporary elements in order to help people with physical distancing against COVID-19.[3]
How to map
If the cycleway or the infrastructure is planned to last more than a month, you can tag them as usual with bicycle tags like cycleway=* or highway=cycleway. This way, the data will be usable by every software without code modification.
If the cycleway replaces a previous infrastructure (lane, busway, etc.), in order to keep the information of the previous infrastructure, the key needs to be changed with a was:*=* prefix, such as was:cycleway=lane
To precise that the cycleway or the infrastructure is temporary, you can add a notice like:
description:covid19=temporary cycleway
See Also
OSM-based Covid-19 services
- https://impfzentrum.openrouteservice.org is a special subdomain of the OpenRouteService that calculates the shortest route to the nearest vaccination or sample collection facility.