<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Looks like Amenity=soapland is more and more appealing. </div><div><br></div><div> >< those libel laws... ouch. I thought the UK also had some pretty strict libel laws too. </div><br><div><div>On Sep 24, 2014, at 1:26 AM, Matthijs Melissen <<a href="mailto:info@matthijsmelissen.nl">info@matthijsmelissen.nl</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr">On 23 Sep 2014 16:29, "Mateusz Konieczny" <<a href="mailto:matkoniecz@gmail.com">matkoniecz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Are you serious that in Thailand they have something like "criminal libel" defined as<br>
> "any statement that harms the reputation of somebody/something"?</p><p dir="ltr">In the Netherlands, this is the case as well. It is, basically, a criminal offence to harm someones honour unless doing so is in the public interest.</p><p dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.wetboek-online.nl/wet/Sr/261.html">http://www.wetboek-online.nl/wet/Sr/261.html</a></p><p dir="ltr">> In fact, I have the same problem with tagging Gentlemen's Clubs in<br>
> England. How do other mappers tag these? From the outside, it's often<br>
> hard to decide whether they should be tagged as leisure=social_club<br>
> (typically not...), amenity=stripclub, or amenity=brothel. In England,<br>
> brothelkeeping is illegal, so tagging them as amenity=brothel without<br>
> evidence might again be risky from a legal perspective.</p><p dir="ltr">I still wonder how other mappers deal with this.</p><p dir="ltr">-- Matthijs</p>
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