[Tagging] How to map a homeless encampment/colony?

[Warin]

On 30/09/19 08:38, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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>> On 29. Sep 2019, at 16:48, Michal Fabík <michal.fabik at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Technically speaking, it could be considered a special case of a landuse=residential because the people sort of _reside_ there, only there are no residential buildings and the mode of residence is very different from what the tag usually denotes.
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> along these tags you could add informal=yes although this remains still very generic.

I would go with a landuse, encampment?

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> how big are these areas, are these spots for a handful or a few dozens (or even hundreds or thousands) of people?
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The larger ones local to me may be a dozen? Not something I look for or map. They tend to want to 'hide' to reduce the possibility of harassment. However I expect that these could be refuges in other parts of the world and may then go into the hundreds. I see no point in placing some limit in either direction on a suitable tag.
There is no limit on the size of a building nor the length of a road so why raise the issue of the size of the area?