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Hocoti t1_jdpfazq wrote

I was wondering how old the hospital data is? It seems to be missing a newer hospital located at Rt. 29 & Profitt Rd (Northern Albemarle County).

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mizinamo t1_jdpvkbi wrote

> I was wondering how old the hospital data is?

The data is from OpenStreetMap, crowdsourced by volunteers.

So it might be at most a day old if we're talking about an area with several active volunteers, and a lot older if we're talking about an area that nobody cares for especially.

It's not a government or company dataset where somebody is specifically responsible for updating it at certain intervals that you can rely on.

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wcedmisten OP t1_jdqouwt wrote

So it looks like this is in the dataset, but it's classified as a clinic and not a hospital. I believe the distinction for OSM is whether inpatient services are offered.

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