Talk:Global Healthsites Mapping Project

disused:amenity=* instead of operational_status

The tag amenity=hospital should only be used for operating medical centres, not for disused or abandoned facilities. If a hospital is in good condition but isn't operating, use disused:amenity=hospital - this tag has been used over 300 times. See: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/disused%3Aamenity=hospital

For a hospital that has been abandoned and would require significant repairs to return to service, use abandoned:amenity=hospital.

See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lifecycle_prefix - this is much more common than operational_status --Jeisenbe (talk) 05:59, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Use standard key healthcare=* or amenity=* for separate features

Rather than proposing new namespaced keys like healthcare:equipment=*, please use the very common key amenity=* or the fairly common and approved key healthcare=* for mapping separate features. For mapping properties of a hospital (for example, is there an MRI at this hospital?) then using a new key is good, preferrably a simple key for each property, for example "mri=yes", "mri=no", "laboratory=yes", "laboratory=no" and so on. --Jeisenbe (talk) 00:49, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

> using a new key […] preferrably a simple key for each property, for example "mri=yes", "mri=no"

+1

I checked existing values. It's a mess:

• facility:ct_scan=yes/no
• facility:x-ray=yes/no or x-ray=yes/no
• facility:ventilator=yes/no
• facility:icu=yes/no

• healthcare:speciality=mri
• healthcare:speciality=X-Ray;CT;MRI
• healthcare_facility:type=laboratory
• health_amenity:type=mri;ultrasound;x_ray
• imaging:type=x-ray;bone_density;mammography;ultrasound;CAT_scan;MRI
• health_amenity:type=laboratory;mri;emergency_department

• hyperbaric_chamber:maxpressure=*, hyperbaric_chamber:diameter=*…

I like the prefix healthcare:facility because:

• it avoid any confusion (we talk about healthcare)
• facilty (a synonym of equipement) is more used in OSM

--Pyrog (talk) 16:01, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

List of healtcare facilities

Your're welcom to add missing facilities.

Imagery

Key	Description
mri	Magnetic resonance imaging
ct_scan	Computed Tomography scan
pet_scan	Positron emission tomography
gamma_scan	Scintigraphy
ultrasound	Medical ultrasound

Other

Key	Description
hyperbaric_chamber	Hyperbaric chamber
laboratory	Medical laboratory

--Pyrog (talk) 16:37, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Urgent Care proposal

Besides emergency=* there is no further key to map the service of an amenity regarding urgency. So user Floridaeditor ( on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) currently proposes to introduce urgent_care=*.

Please see the proposal:  Proposed_features/Urgent_care  by Floridaeditor ( on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)  --Chris2map (talk) 08:51, 12 April 2020 (UTC)