My Experience at SOTM ASIA’2019 - Dhaka, Bangladesh:

I was willing to be part of SOTM, when i have been the part of the SOTM ASIA ’2019 at the Krishibid Institution Bangladesh (KIB) Dhaka, Bangladesh, it gave me a excited experience. I have attended the event alone and it was my first international trip from India which build a stronger confidence level inside me and also gave chance to meet different people from all around the world and made few good friend among them in short time.

SOTM Asia’19 has gave me a amazing platform to talk and present a overview on RMSI’s project - India_Health_Facilities_Import

The lightning talks, panel discussion and workshop at the conference were truly fascinated me with the speaker’s topics. Every person I met at the conference has furnished me with good memories and It was very delight to meet many innovative people at the same platform across the globe. Youth mappers, HOT Indonesia Team, University Students, Many govt and private organizations, mapping communities are few among them. I am so happy to make few good friend Rashmitha Patro, Subhash Dulla, Silvia, Yeni, Shahrukh Farhan, Akash and many more.

The speakers at the conference has shared their knowledge on involving different platforms and new technologies in OpenStreetMap. It gave me immense knowledge seeing that OSM is being used in our daily lives. I was also inspired knowing people’s involvement during disaster management and boosted me to be more active and volunteer during disasters.

About My Talk:

My session was appointed at one of the lighting session on the day1 and I would like to thank to all the audiences who were present at my talk, and appreciate Shahrukh Farhan (Bangladesh) and Akash (Bangladesh) for showing special interest to know about the health facility project.

I have shared the main goal of this project that is to provide accessible data of accurate health care information from the Open Government Data directories which can be useful for all the people and also the Humanitarian team in India. The source dataset is taken from open government data https://data.gov.in/. which has published three directories with huge list of medical facility records which includes Hospitals, Clinics, Blood Banks, Health centers, Dentists, Rural hospitals, sub centers etc.. in India.

According to the OGD these data were published on 10th August, 2017 contributed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Department of Health and Family Welfare,The National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW).

We have put our efforts to cleaning and converting the Government datasets to OSM compatibility tagging before adding them to OSM.

We have attempted a pilot survey for the quality check of the government data at our local regions and records 3k plus of health facilities in Telangana State.

Also participated to contributed the MapRoulette Challenges to the community or the local users to add the known health facilities to OSM. https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/8000 https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/8186 https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/8023 https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/8020

Thanks to sawan Shariar for being the best in all the arrangements till the end of the conference. Happy Mapping

Background of the Challange:

The challenge is to improve the health care information in India which can be beneficial for the people in need. In order to do so we need to re-position the coordinate with their actual ground truth position (If they are not at the actual position) with the help of local knowledge and add the Additional Tags from the MR Properties to the amenity.

Use Maproulette and Josm in order to add or modify hospital and all other sorts of health facilities records in OSM.

Instructions:

Step 1: Identify the Facility

Check for the Hospital/Health Center Name and If you know the Hospital/Health Center then Click on “Edit” If not you can “Skip” and go for the next task and go to the actual location of the Hospital/Health Center.

Step 2: Check for the Existing data

If the Hospital/Health Center feature is already mapped in OSM. Add the missing attributes to existing feature from the MR Task Properties.

If not add a new node on the Hospital/Health Center location and add all the Tags from the MR Task Properties.

Note:

If building is missing you can add a building feature.

If the facility is permanently closed mark it as Too Hard.

Upload the changes with preset Changeset Comment and source

Maproulette Task Action:

Mark the task according to action taken.

Fixed : If you add / modified the respected tasks features in OSM

Already Fixed : If the feature is already existing with all tags in OSM

Too hard / Can’t see: If the facility is permanently closed facilities

Skip: If the facility is unknown

Thank You Happy Mapping

My Intro

Am Sowmya Nayani also called by “Neena” and am a professional “Cartographer” from Hyderabad India. Am trying to Improve the Base Map of OSM in my location (India) you can support me by taking the Maproulette challenges.

Connecting Villages Project:

KamaReddy: https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/8354 Srikakulam: https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/8929

Improve POI Project:

*Bihar:https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/8020 *Bangalore: https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/8023

Thank You