[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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