Global Healthsites Mapping Project - building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap

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 wasted establishing accurate and accessible baseline data.

Healthsites.io establishes this data and the tools necessary to upload, manage and make the data easily accessible.

Global scope

The Global Healthsites Mapping Project is an initiative to create an online map of every health facility in the world and make the details of each location easily accessible.

Open data collaboration

Through collaborations with users, trusted partners and OpenStreetMap the Global Healthsites Mapping Project will capture and validate the location and contact details of every facility and make this data freely available under an Open Data License (ODBL).

Accessible

The Global Healthsites Mapping Project will make the data accessible over the Internet through an API and other formats such as GeoJSON, Shapefile, KML, CSV.

Focus on health care location data

The Global Healthsites Mapping Project's design philosophy is the long term curation and validation of health care location data. The healthsites.io map will enable users to discover what healthcare facilities exist at any global location and the associated services and resources.

Simple

Date ( Publication )
2020-06-19
Identifier
dataset
Status
On going
Publisher
Global Healthsites Mapping Project - ( )

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords ( Theme )
  • health
Keywords ( Place )
  • World
Keywords ( Theme )
  • MOOD-H2020
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Human health and safety
Use limitation
License
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Use constraints
License
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Other constraints
Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)
Other constraints
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Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
5000
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Boundaries
  • Health
  • Geoscientific information
  • Location
  • Society
Begin date
2004-06-15
End date
2020-06-19
N
S
E
W
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Supplemental Information
Data model: https://github.com/healthsites/healthsites/wiki
Reference system identifier
EPSG:4326 - WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Shapefile ( )

OnLine resource
Shapefile ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--download )

Download per country or for whole world

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Other citation details
http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2010/1089/2014-12-31
Explanation
See specified reference
Pass
Yes
Statement
collaborations with users, trusted partners and OpenStreetMap

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier
f67fef26-6fd0-4741-bb4c-a85b6c2f1c81 XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2021-10-25T12:37:20
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
Global Healthsites Mapping Project - ( )

Point of contact
mundialis GmbH & Co. KG -

https://www.mundialis.de/

Citation proposal


(2020) . Global Healthsites Mapping Project - building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap. Global Healthsites Mapping Project
https://data.opendatascience.eu/geonetwork/static/api/records/f67fef26-6fd0-4741-bb4c-a85b6c2f1c81

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