[Osmf-talk] Reaching out and diversity (Was: Re: AGM and board elections)

[Simon Poole]

Am 28.09.2014 10:22, schrieb Jaak Laineste (Nutiteq):
...
> My mistake, I was inaccurate -  the original observation was not really
> about having more brothels on map, but having more attention to male
> entertainment-related tags: there are stripclubs, swingers something,
> brothels etc, but only one kindergarten tag. Thinking about OSM as a
> map, then this seems to be actually one of very few examples where
> gender diversity question comes to the picture. 
....

I believe Kathleen is mistaken when she points to the childcare "affair"
and claims that it is a running gag inside OSM. I haven't met anybody in
the community that doesn't consider it an unfortunate collision of wrong
expectations, a complicated subject matter with lots of regional
differences and our general tendency to bike shed tagging, ending in a
big mess. I'm not not discounting gender as one of the contributing
ingredients to the mess, but it clearly wasn't the only one.

There is in any case no reason to believe that if a working childcare
scheme was available that it wouldn't immediately be adopted by the
community. Adopted == used in mapping, not necessarily approved by any
mechanism. It is really simply a difficult subject, I can travel 40km to
the north and pre-school education and childcare is organized completely
different even though the same names (for example Kindergarten, are used
for certain facilities).

In general if you browse taginfo a bit (in line with SK53 studies) you
will see all kind of oddities that would indicate that gender cannot be
a significant force in determining what get mapped and what not.

Simon



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