[Diversity-talk] Idea: Quarterly Projects for a traditionally underrepresented topic(s)/groups?

[Philip Barnes]

On Mon, 2018-03-26 at 22:24 +0200, Rory McCann wrote:
> Hi guys, gals and non-binary pals,

Some interesting ideas, it is difficult to find a single object that
will exist on a worldwide scale.

Some OSM groups have "quarterly projects" where they improve the
state
> of something in OSM in their area, e.g. the UK OSM community once
> worked
> on schools in the UK for a quarter.

This was a great success, schools are a common feature so everyone had
a chance to contribute. We have access to a government database of
schools and were able to add missing schools and also add additional
information and improve the mapping. A lot of changing from node to
area was done as well as moving tags to the campus. Tagging buildings
doesn't really work as most schools have multiple buildings.

Schools are relatively easy to armchair, the project was done during
the dark evenings, as they are large and surrounded by sports fields
making them distinctive on imagery. 

The database also contains Nurseries so many of those were added as
part of the project.


> 
> How about we do that? Every quarter (3 months) pick some topic,
> something that is traditionally underrepresented in OSM, and we try
> to
> improve the state of that in OSM.
> 
> There's been lots of legit talk lately about what is and isn't mapped
> in
> OSM, so let's try to map it! There's more than just adding data. We
> could also try to improve documentation (written/video), editor
> presets,
> figure out tagging schemes, map rendering, finding data to use, etc.
> But
> we're a geographically spread group, so we can all probably add
> something to the map. There are things that aren't mapped in OSM, so
> let's map them! 🙂
> 
> Any ideas for topics? Off the top of my head: the recently mentioned
> amenity=childcare tag, 

I am not sure that I understand what is missing here, we have mapped
Nursery Schools as amenity=kindergarten which has no English meaning
and is one of the American terms we use in OSM such as sidewalk. I know
it is German for Childrens Garden.

Nursery Schools offer pre school education for 3 and 4 year old and
many offer babycare and after school/school holiday care. All 3 and 4
year olds are entitled to 15 hours free Nursery Education a week, these
are verifiable and are/can be mapped.

Other childcare is provided by Registered Childminders, these are
contactable through adverts/social services, but are in private homes
and are not something we can or should map.

I am not sure what else there is to map in this category but open to
suggestions.


> recently mentioned women's health care facilities, 
Where I live these are provided through the general healthcare, either
through the local doctors surgery or will be departments within the
local hospitals. They are not standalone facilities.

> wheelchair accessibility, 
Something we can do, edge cases will need more specialist knowledge. In
my experience toilets will be the main issue.

> gay bars,
A big city thing I think. The small town I live in is pretty inclusive.

> gendered toilets for trans/gnc/etc people, 
Not something I have ever come across, as far as I am aware in the UK
transgendered people can legally use whichever toilet they feel more
comfortable with.

> gendered toilets
As a European this was something that had never occurred to me. The
norm is that there will be a male/female/unisex disabled. 

Mapping the gender had never occurred to me until I was at an interesting talk at SOTM Brussels. 

> minority language? 
Locally there is a big drive to add Welsh language names to OSM,. At the weekend I was at a concert that was a bit Welsh and a bit Cornish Synth Pop. I'm not sure Cornish is anywhere near the coverage Welsh has. 


HOT/MM is already doing a lot
> in areas where the maps are missing

 😉. Any more ideas? Nearly all of us
> are privileged in some axis, so someone not in that group must be
> careful not to tell marginalized people how to map their thing, and
> ensure we map it correctly ("The X tag is useless now after all those
> diversity people added all that junk!")

As a community we are mostly from a techie background that generally puts us into a middle class background. We do not attract mappers from social housing for example. Just off the top of my head shops offering topups for prepayment meters, social clubs, bingo halls but that is me, a middle class engineer without a clue. 
> 
> What do yous think? Would many be interested in taking part?

I'm certainly interested in mapping those things that are off my radar. 

Phil (trigpoint) 
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