[HOT] Open Defecation Area proposal

[Bob Kerr]

Hi,

It has been a very long time since I have posted to the mailing list. So please bear with me if I have landed in the wrong place.

I was recently at a WASH conference (Water,Sanitation,hygiene). We were discussing Open Defecation, people going to the toilet in the open, specially in dense urban areas. Open defecation areas ODA are use by about 850 million people. If they each use 10 different areas a year then that is 8.5 billion areas.

The only way that this problem can start to be addressed is if we have a map of the areas. A paper map made by MapOSmatic with theses areas marked would be an excellent inspiration for local communities to deal with the problem and would act as competition between local towns and cities to be the cleanest

I have checked with taginfo and there are a few examples on defecation but nothing officially proposed.

My questions are. Do you think there would be support for this on the humanitarian tile map render and who should I talk to about adding it to the humanitarian style sheet if the proposal is accepted.

I believe I could get a lot of enthusiasm from WASH communities, they would also become enthusiastic mappers because their first ever map was the broad street pump

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak

Where they used a map to stop cholera

The proposal would be simple node and area with picture of a person squatting. I would appreciate guidance as  I  create this.

Many thanks for your time

Bob
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