[HOT] Open Defecation Area proposal

[Bob Kerr]

Hi,

I think the best way to show you the open defecation problem is to search google images for “open defecation slum”. The Wikipedia page makes it sound natural but it is a big problem for disease transmission in rural areas, it is also a huge problem in developing countries in urban areas.

The idea of adding a sanitation tag is a good one but a little too detailed for this proposal, but could easily be secondary tags added later when it is more established

I have now changed my mind and think that landuse=open_defecation is better than my original suggestion of Open_defecation_area=yes, it fits in better with the tagging scheme already established

 if I use landuse = open_defecation then that would work well next to landuse=landfill or could be used within other landuse areas. I will now drop the word “area” as it is already inferred in the word landuse.

I think that the idea of a tag is seen as positive so I will start to work on a proposal. Please keep the ideas and information coming as they are all very good

Cheers bob