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goodness, all this anxiety! Why are you feeling that<br>
you have to justify what you map, just because someone is<br>
studying it by gender?<br><br>
Charlotte<br><br>
<br><br>
At 10:10 AM 9/5/2017, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 08:25:33
+0200 Marc Gemis <marc.gemis@gmail.com> wrote: > One of the
discussion points on her diary entry was female hygiene > products
found in women's toilets. How is a man going to map that, > without
access to women's toilets ? > > The real question for me is are men
more likely going to map shop=car > than
shop=clothes;clothes=underwear/fashion/ ... (sorry for the >
stereotyping) > will men map leisure=playground or amenity=pub ? >
will a roman catholic map a mosque ? > will a non-dog owner map
leisure=dog_park ? > > in short: will we map everything we
see or do we map only our > interests ? Furthermore, do we really see
everything or do we only see > (and map) things we are conditioned to
? > > This is not about buildings, addresses, roads and paths. They
are <br>
> pretty gender neutral I think. It's about POIs. <br>
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I know I map what I see (or more precisely, what my camera <br>
captures). If it doesn't have a sign out front, I don't map it.<br>
To take an example from the midwives vs. strip clubs debate, <br>
the phone book lists seven midwives and/or midwife groups <br>
in the Spokane area. Of those, three are attached to hospitals <br>
and one to a community-health clinic, and so wouldn't have <br>
signs. Two are operating out of private homes and don't have <br>
signs (and I wouldn't map them if they did, just like I don't map <br>
lawn care or computer repair businesses operating out of <br>
private homes).<br>
The last one is in the 95% of the city I haven't yet photo-mapped. <br>
The phone book lists zero strip clubs in the Spokane area. <br>
Despite that, I've found and mapped one strip club: it was on a <br>
major street and had a clear sign out front.<br>
Yes, there's a bias in my mapping, but it's a bias towards <br>
"things identifiable from the street." I'm more likely to map a
car <br>
store than a clothes store, because car stores are generally <br>
not found inside shopping malls. Playgrounds beat pubs, <br>
because every playground is visible from the street. And this <br>
non-dog-owner didn't map the dog park, because it was <br>
already mapped by the time I got started. <br>
<br>
-- Mark <br>
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