Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics

Proposal Owner: Gowtham Rao

Use cases: For standardized geospatial visualization and analysis

Related proposals: http://www.ohdsi.org/web/wiki/doku.php?id=documentation:next_cdm:country

Discussion: http://forums.ohdsi.org/t/proposal-standardized-address-latitude-and-longitude-location-table/2405

Background: For standardized geospatial visualization and analysis, addresses need to be, at the minimum be geocoded into latitude and longitude. This allows it to put as a point on a map. This proposal is to add two fields, latitude and longitude to the location table.

Backward compatible: Yes

Impact: GIS workgroup