[Talk-ca] Hospital list...

2010-12-04 Thread Colin McGregor
I am doing some stuff with the Random Hacks of Kindness folks (http://www.rhok.org/) and am looking for a list of geo-referenced hospitals. Anyone know an easy way to get this info. out of Open Street Map, or baring that know of another source of this data that could be freely re-used by not for

Re: [Talk-ca] Hospital list...

2010-12-04 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Le 04/12/2010 22:17, Colin McGregor a écrit : I am doing some stuff with the Random Hacks of Kindness folks (http://www.rhok.org/) and am looking for a list of geo-referenced hospitals. Anyone know an easy way to get this info. out of Open Street Map, or baring that know of another source of

[Talk-ca] Hospital list...

2010-12-04 Thread Colin McGregor
-- Forwarded message -- From: Colin McGregor colin.mc...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 16:59:40 -0500 Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Hospital list... On 12/4/10, Jean-Guilhem Cailton snip wrote: Le 04/12/2010 22:17, Colin McGregor a écrit : I am doing some stuff with the Random Hacks

Re: [Talk-ca] Hospital list...

2010-12-04 Thread Paul Norman
To get this info *out* of OSM you could use XAPI. A query like http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/*[amenity=hospital] might work. The wiki has more xapi documentation at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi which might help. You should be warned that xapi is at times slow and outdated. You

Re: [Talk-ca] Hospital list...

2010-12-04 Thread Sam Vekemans
I'm not certain that OpenStreetMap supports that activity. All available data needs to be added to OpemStreetMap, and cannot be extracted for any external gis system, unless the complete external gis system is previously imported into OpenStreeMap. Checking with legal for the use.