[HOT] idp:camp_site=spontaneous_camp from Nepal earthquake

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Fri Feb 19 17:50:58 UTC 2021


During mapping in Nepal I encountered 

idp:camp_site=spontaneous_camp
damage:event=nepal_earthquake_2015

like https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/341110446/history

It is not possible for me to confirm this as aerial imagery is low
and I have no ability to survey on the ground, but it seems very
likely to me that this data is no longer correct.

Or is my assumption that  spontaneous camps from 2015 are now
gone is wrong?

See http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/13SO for query that finds about
12 000 of camps from 2015 Nepal earthquake.

Is anyone aware who was using or is still using this data?

Is anyone maintaining this data?

What is the meaning of this tags? It seems to me that it describes
temporary, short-term camp (probably not really suitable for
mapping in OSM, but I understand why someone decided to push
data into the closest available hosting).

I found 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags/Humanitarian_Data_Model_OLD#Internally_Displaced_People_.28IDPs.29_camp_site
but it is not really answering my questions.

Is there a better place to ask this questions?

Is anyone aware whatever this objects can now be safely deleted
as outdated? If this objects are no longer existing then this should
be deleted to make mapping new things and updating existing data
easier.

But I want to be sure that I know what I am doing before deleting anything.

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