2021_Veterinary_Hospital_FacilityDistributions

Veterinary and Hospital distributions. 

Abstract:

These maps of veterinary facilities and hospital health care locations are derived from the open-source Open Street Maps (OSM). These are large datasets that underlie most of the satnav utilities, and are continuously updated by members of the public. They are compiled by GEOFABRIK, and can be downloaded from https://www.geofabric.de. Healthcare data have been further enhanced by the Global Health Sites Mapping Project (https://healthsites.io).  The data consist of locations (“points of interest”) and building outlines, and are made up of points and polygons that are stored separately in the OSM files. Each record has a series of descriptors (“tags”) such as ‘amenity’ which may include descriptions of a hospital or veterinary clinic. These tags are provided by the people who add the data to the maps and are multilingual and very variable. Most records contain additional more generic tags that can be used to identify classes of locations like hospitals or pharmacies.   ERGO has taken the IO and OSM datasets, combined the polygon and point data, converted the polygons to points, and removed any duplicates (where building outlines also have point location records), to produce and global datasets for healthcare and regional datasets for healthcare and veterinary locations covering Europe and its neighboring countries. 

File naming scheme: 

Full descriptions in Maps of Healthcare and Veterinary Locations.pptx.  

ESRI point shapefiles are as follows:  Healthcare Global: Ionodewaynodupallmay21.shp  Healthcare Regional: MONODWAYALLnodupMAY21.shp  Veterinary Regional: afeupolypointsnondupmergemay21.shp  The regional maps are produced by tabulating the number of each healthcare amenity or veterinary locations within administrative zones, normalising by the administrative unit areas. The maps are produced from the following shape files:  Healthcare Regional: MOiohealthamenitycountadmin2may21.shp  Veterinary Regional: MONODWATALLVETSNODUPMAY21.shp  An arcGS 10.4 MPK project file (ERGOhealthvetforweb.mpk) has been provided to display the spatial data provided

Projection + EPSG code:Latitude-Longitude/WGS84 (EPSG: 4326)

Spatial extent:Extent    -73.2621536249999394,18.9632860000000392 : 69.0703202920000336,83.6274185180000842

Spatial resolution:Shp files

Temporal Resolution:

Year 2021

Values:

Per Units (Number of facilities ): the number of each healthcare amenity or veterinary locations within administrative zones,

Source: 

Open Street Maps (OSM):

GEOFABRIK  https://www.geofabric.de

Health care data https://healthsites.io

Software used:ArcMap 10.4

License: CC-BY-SA 4.0

Processed by:ERGO (Environmental Research Group Oxford) https://ergoonline.co.uk/ for the H2020 MOOD project