[Tagging] (Soapy) Massage Parlour

johnw johnw at mac.com
Tue Sep 23 22:45:04 UTC 2014


Looks like Amenity=soapland is more and more appealing. 

 ><  those libel laws... ouch.  I thought the UK also had some pretty strict libel laws too. 

On Sep 24, 2014, at 1:26 AM, Matthijs Melissen <info at matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote:

> On 23 Sep 2014 16:29, "Mateusz Konieczny" <matkoniecz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are you serious that in Thailand they have something like "criminal libel" defined as
> > "any statement that harms the reputation of somebody/something"?
> 
> In the Netherlands, this is the case as well. It is, basically, a criminal offence to harm someones honour unless doing so is in the public interest.
> 
> http://www.wetboek-online.nl/wet/Sr/261.html
> 
> > In fact, I have the same problem with tagging Gentlemen's Clubs in
> > England. How do other mappers tag these? From the outside, it's often
> > hard to decide whether they should be tagged as leisure=social_club
> > (typically not...), amenity=stripclub, or amenity=brothel. In England,
> > brothelkeeping is illegal, so tagging them as amenity=brothel without
> > evidence might again be risky from a legal perspective.
> 
> I still wonder how other mappers deal with this.
> 
> -- Matthijs
> 
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