What is the nearest hospital to each school in Lesotho
Dublin Transport map creator. Mapper. Open Data guy. Busting into the spatial planning & GIS world one step at a time.
I have been experimenting with some simple examples from turf.js and mapbox.js.
We graciously received some data from the Lesotho Ambassador to Ireland which contained the located of all schools in Lesotho. I thought it might be ideal to then go ahead and plot these on a map where we could find the nearest hospital to each school.
How do you do it? First you must zoom in so you can see the blue schools icons. Simply click one and it will highlight the nearest hospital.
Hospital data was extracted from OpenStreetMap using overpass turbo. I know for a fact some hospitals are missing. This is something we would like to map as soon as possible. If you have any information on Hospital locations in Lesotho please don’t hesitate to contact the folks on maplesotho.wordpress.com or myself or through the #MapLesotho hashtag.
Want to do this yourself? You can checkout the source code below or go directly to the gist:
"What is the nearest hospital to each school in Lesotho"