[Tagging] (Soapy) Massage Parlour

Dave Swarthout daveswarthout at gmail.com
Sun Sep 21 12:02:56 UTC 2014


@Dan S — Good answer. I was wondering how to tag such places myself.

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Dan S <danstowell+osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi -
>
> It looks like there's this tag, including a tag suggested for your
> specific issue:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dmassage
>
> Best
> Dan
>
> 2014-09-21 4:23 GMT+01:00 Mishari Muqbil <mishari at mishari.net>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thailand has these places called "entertainment complexes"[1]  that
> > offers bathing + massage services and quite often the expectation is
> > that there will be sexual services offered. However, I don't want to tag
> > them as brothels as prostitution on the premises is legally not
> allowed[2].
> >
> > I propose to tag this as leisure=massage_parlour since that's what the
> > Thai English dictionary calls them[3] but I don't want it to be mistaken
> > for more family friendly establishments in other parts of the world.
> > Colloquially these places are called soapy massage so perhaps
> > leisure=soapy_massage? :)
> >
> > One reason why they should be mapped is just how prominent they are as
> > landmarks in general. For example, here's one called Utopia
> > http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/z1A8OOUw01E5Jc84Mff-1Q this one's La
> > Defense http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/ho84IFdUxupke-6pwrWW3g and
> > Colonze http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/469ttdMVw4_1o3vkuvE_xw
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Thailand#Ab_Ob_Nuat
> > [2]
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Thailand#The_Entertainment_Places_Act
> > [3]
> >
> http://th.w3dictionary.org/index.php?q=%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%96%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%94
> > --
> > Best regards
> > Mishari Muqbil
> > EE32 64BD 7D1F 5946
> >
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