[mkgmap-dev] [patch] hospital POI improvements

Sun Feb 14 08:02:38 GMT 2016

Hi Regunathan,

My guess is that Ayurvedic facilities would fall under amenity=clinic.
There would need to be a specific tag for Ayurvedic facilities to be able
to add a new mkgmap style rule with one of the medical POIs in the range
0x4B00 - 0x4BFF. I would get in touch with the Sri Lanka OSM group to see
how to best tag these facilities.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka

In the meantime, if Ayurvedic facilities are tagged amenity=clinic, this
patch will ensure they are not listed in 'Where am I? -> Hospitals'.

Ben

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Regunathan Umapathy <umapathyxp at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I also marked amenity=doctors for the Primary Health care centers here in
> Vavniya, Northern Sri Lanka. I also seen some of the openstreetmap
> contributors mapped clinics (amenity=clinic) in Jaffna northern Sri Lanka.
> Is there any way to distinguish them in garmin maps with the hospitals.
> Also there are hospital but not practising modern medicine but traditional
> ones here in Sri Lanka known as Ayurvedic (Mostly from herbs they create
> medicine), Is there any way to distinguish them because they don't help
> much during emergency (for example road traffic accidents) as most of them
> do not have any ambulance and they generally also don't treat the
> bleedings.
> ,
>
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Ben Konrath <ben at bagu.org> wrote:
>
>> I didn't type the correct git command. Here's the actual patch. :)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Ben Konrath <ben at bagu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I found a problem with the hospital POIs in the default style. When you
>>> use the 'Where am I? -> Hospitals' functionality, all hospitals, clinics,
>>> dentists and doctors show up in the list. The 'Where am I?' seems like it's
>>> something I would use in an emergency so it makes sense to only add
>>> hospitals with the 'emergency=yes' tag. This patch also splits out
>>> hospitals without emergency departments, clinics, dentists, doctors and
>>> other healthcare providers into separate POIs so people can update the TYP
>>> file if they want.
>>>
>>> I tested this patch on my Nuvi 255w and it seems to work. Only hospitals
>>> tagged with 'emergency=yes' show up in the 'Where am I? -> Hospitals' list.
>>> The other POIs turn up with the same heath care plus icon. The only
>>> downside I can see is that not all hospitals are correctly tagged with
>>> 'emergency=yes' so these won't be in the 'Where am I? -> Hospitals' list.
>>> In my mind, this a problem with the data and there's not much to do about
>>> except fix it in OSM.
>>>
>>> Comments and suggestions are appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Ben
>>>
>>>
>>
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