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

[Jerry Clough]

A couple of years ago I documented Direct Provision 
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ireland/Direct_Provision> 
facilities in Ireland which range through static caravans to re-purposed 
hotels. I noticed these because a friend is a member of the Sanctuary 
Runners 
<https://www.irishrefugeecouncil.ie/News/sanctuary-runners-partnership#:~:text=The%20Sanctuary%20Runners%2C%20a%20movement%20established%20in%20January,grow%20the%20initiative%20across%20Ireland%20and%20the%20world.>.

It's also worth remembering that refugee facilities take many form (we 
currently have a fair number of Afghan refugees in hotels in the UK).

When I was growing up I had quite a number of friends whose fathers had 
first lived in refugee camps after WW2, some of them continued 
<https://www.polishresettlementcampsintheuk.co.uk/> for quite a number 
of years. Again somewhat different.

So I agree with stevea, don't redefine prison, explore the actual 
diversity of things which these terms represent. In general I find the 
social_facility:* scheme often offers enough nuance to capture salient 
points even if it fails to provide an overriding single category (which 
I think might be hard and not really representative).

Jerry

On 02/11/2021 08:37, stevea wrote:
> I was also not aware of https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Refugee/Displaced_Site_Mapping , another excellent resource.
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