[Tagging] internment camps, prisons, refugee sites etc.

stevea steveaOSM at softworkers.com
Tue Nov 2 08:15:17 UTC 2021


Thank you, Martin.  That wiki is an excellent start to this wide, diverse topic.

> On Nov 2, 2021, at 12:59 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2 Nov 2021, at 02:18, stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Refugee sites are altogether different yet again.  Often even larger than prisons (in land area), and sometimes “housing” up to hundreds of thousands of people (thousands or tens of thousands is more typical) these are something which could almost be considered a kind of town or city in and of themselves, with “barbers” and “shops” (quite informal) and even music lessons and book lending going on.  
> 
> for refugee sites there is already approved tagging: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Drefugee_site



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