[Diversity-talk] Who Maps The World

Charlotte Wolter techlady at roadrunner.com
Sun Mar 18 22:23:08 UTC 2018


Paul,

         A kindergarten is a school, not a child-care center. They 
are two fundamentally different things. Also, child-care centers 
serve a range of ages, not just 5-year-olds. I, too, tried to find a 
real child-care tag a few months ago. There is none, and 
"kindergarten" doesn't cut it.

Charlotte


At 04:40 PM 3/15/2018, you wrote:
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>On 3/14/2018 6:47 PM, alyssa wright wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>City Lab article below on gender disparity in OSM. I actually think 
>>things have evolved and are more nuanced then ever before. 
>>Wondering if I am being naive.
>
>Yes. Part of the thesis of the article is based around the claims of 
>what gets mapped. The claims in the article do not reflect reality.
>
>OSM has more child-care centers (amenity=kindergarten) mapped than 
>sports arenas or sports arenas, the examples from the article. I 
>couldn't figure out what tags Levine was talking about for strip clubs.
>
>For healthcare, the claims are vaguer, but as a general rule, 
>"primary" information like something being a doctor's office, 
>clinic, or other healthcare facility gets mapped faster than 
>"subtag" information like what type of specialty the doctor's has. 
>This is normal - when I'm out mapping, noting where there's a 
>doctor's or clinic is more important than what type it is. You see 
>the same in other subtags.
>
>  Looking at what healthcare facilities is tagged with that 
> additional information, and ignoring "general", the five most 
> popular are "Obstetrics and gynaecology", "Ophthalmology", "General 
> (internal) medicine", "Paediatrics", and "Trauma and orthopaedic 
> surgery". (UK terms).
>
>The gender percentages are interesting, and if accurate, put a much 
>lower value on percentage of mapping that HOT does than I've seen in 
>the past. I suspect there are some problems with different sources 
>of numbers, and the numbers cited not being accurate.
>
>[1]: 
><https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/healthcare%3Aspeciality#values>https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/healthcare%3Aspeciality#values
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