[Tagging] [OpenStreetMap] social facility

[Sean Horgan]

I'd like to get some feedback from the community on possible inclusion of
"emergency shelter" in a "social facility" feature.  I was discussing this
with the author of that proposal, kerosin, as I'd like to fold the Homeless
Shelter proposal into Social Facility.

After just a little research, the Humanitarian OSM tags came up and I want
to make that whatever we propose is in line with those goals.

Thanks,

Sean

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From: Sean Horgan <seanhorgan at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 14:28
Subject: Re: [OpenStreetMap] Re: Re: Re: Re: social facility
To: kerosin <m-132381-1485e0 at messages.openstreetmap.org>


While I don't want to over-complicate this proposal, the inclusion of
emergency raises more questions.

The use-case I'm thinking about for emergencies covers shelters for
disasters as well as vaccination clinics or distribution of aid.  Some of
this is covered in the Humanitarian OSM tags:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags/Humanitarian_Data_Model#Health_Facility

An emergency shelter would be covered under Internally Displaced People
(IDP) camp site, e.g.

idp:camp_condition=building

A vaccination clinic, for something like smallpox would be:

health_facility:type<http://w/index.php?title=Key:health_facility:type&action=edit&redlink=1>
=dispensary<http://w/index.php?title=Tag:health_facility:type%3Ddispensary&action=edit&redlink=1>

I didn't see anything in there there for distribution of food or other aid
like building supplies.

>From your wiki proposal, I would change this:

social_facility=emergency_shelter (a shelter for homeless people e.g. in
case of a disaster)

to just

social_facility=emergency

We could then use the Humanitarian tags to describe the feature in more
detail.  Would this be the right way to approach this?

Sean
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