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Hospitals in Bosnia

Posted by michalfabik on 12 February 2018 in English. Last updated on 13 February 2018.

The other day I noticed that there’s an absurdly large number of hospitals mapped in certain countries, including doctors’ offices, clinics, dentists’ offices, nursing homes, research institutes, pharmacies, even vets’ offices. Over the course of several days, I cleaned up Bosnia, leaving only true hospitals (i.e. provides inpatient care, consists of several specialized clinics, usually has the word “hospital” in the official name), and retagged everything else as appropriate. Here’s an image of hospitals in the former Yugoslavia with Bosnia cleaned up and the rest left untouched:

comparison of hospital density in Bosnia and the rest of Yugoslavia(full size)

ځای: Visokovci, Lokvine, City of Zenica, Zenica-Doboj Canton, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 72260, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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په 13 February 2018 په 17:56 باندې د jonwit تبصره

Great job! tvoje cipele mirise

په 14 February 2018 په 21:00 باندې د michalfabik تبصره

Thanks:)
Znam, jutros sam ih parfemisao:P

په 21 February 2018 په 20:34 باندې د mboeringa تبصره

Yes, great job. This is indeed a common problem all over Europe, the inappropriate use of hospital tags.

I would also recommend to only use “amenity=hospital” for the entire hospital grounds, as per Wiki. Quite often, people tag “amenity=hospital” on individual buildings, which are more appropriately tagged “building=clinic” or “building=hospital”.

Lastly, I would also strongly recommend to always add “emergency=yes/no” depending on whether there is an emergency room and thus can deal with emergencies. This is an important distinction between hospitals or different locations of it.

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