[mkgmap-dev] [patch] hospital POI improvements

Sat Feb 13 10:26:58 GMT 2016

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. :)
>
>
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> 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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