[Tagging] refugee camp

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Thu Jun 20 00:18:21 UTC 2019


It is a land use, residential .. at least on a temporary basis. possibly 
landuse=residential, residential=migrants?
This avoids the over used amenity key. Most renders will render it 
unidentified from other residential area and HOT can use their own 
rendering to identify it.

On 20/06/19 09:49, Violaine_Do wrote:
>
>
> I wanted to point out also a few questions or thoughts : i am not sure 
> it is ok (or pretty sure it is dangerous) to tag houses or group of 
> houses with refugee=yes because it is quite localised and could be a 
> sensitive information.
>
> Then I am not a big fan of 
> amenity=social_facility+social_facility:for=refugee for spotting a 
> whole camp, as it is recurrent that there is social facilities in this 
> camp, and so it will lead to errors such as "impossible to have an 
> amenity inside an amenity".
>
> Looking forward to read HOT views,
>
> Thks
>
> On 12/06/2019 23:29, Rupert Allan wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> Thanks Violaine, for sharing this. Yes, we did a lot of work on these 
>> semantics and tagging in the Ugandan context. We use refugee = yes, 
>> because designated refugee areas are not always 'camps' (settlements, 
>> urban blocks, etc).
>>
>> 'Camp' can be pejorative/othering in certain contexts. IDPs as 
>> Internally Displayed Persons are certainly refugees. I copy-in Paul 
>> Uithol and Deo Kiggudde to collaborate in this discussion. Having 
>> limited online access, I will monitor and comment more next week, 
>> once back online proper.
>> Best,
>>
>> Rupert
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 12 Jun 2019, 21:45 Violaine, <violaine at posteo.net 
>> <mailto:violaine at posteo.net>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     fyi, i think you could help on this discussion...
>>
>>     -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>     Subject: 	Re: [Tagging] refugee camp
>>     Date: 	Wed, 12 Jun 2019 10:44:34 -1000
>>     From: 	Violaine_Do <violaine_osm at posteo.de>
>>     <mailto:violaine_osm at posteo.de>
>>     Reply-To: 	violaine_osm at posteo.de <mailto:violaine_osm at posteo.de>
>>     Organization: 	OSM
>>     To: 	Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
>>     <mailto:dieterdreist at gmail.com>, daveswarthout at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:daveswarthout at gmail.com>, Tag discussion, strategy and
>>     related tools <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
>>     <mailto:tagging at openstreetmap.org>
>>     CC: 	Rupert Allan <rupert.allan at hotosm.org>
>>     <mailto:rupert.allan at hotosm.org>
>>
>>
>>
>>     As wikipedia (1) seems to say refugee camp implies internally
>>     displaced people it seem ok to me. (i was wondering if IDP was a
>>     type of refugees or different)
>>
>>     Maybe add a refugee_camp:for=refugee/idp..., refugee_camp:type=
>>     informal/...
>>
>>     I still want to point out that there is more than 2500 use of
>>     refugee=yes (2) so I add Allan to this discussion, hoping he has
>>     some more field feedbacks, what having this new tag would imply..
>>
>>     1:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee_camp
>>
>>     2:https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/refugee#overview
>>
>>     On 11/06/2019 21:51, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     I would prefer something like refugee_camp=yes or similar.
>>>
>>>     Cheers, Martin
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Violaine_Do
>>

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