[Tagging] RFC: Removal of Eruvs from OSM, and further boundry=religious

[Clay Smalley]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 12:30 AM Evan Carroll <me at evancarroll.com> wrote:

> 3. There is a status on an Eruv: they can be up or down. For example, if
> one of the arbitrary chosen barriers is a light post, and that light post
> is replaced the Eruv is status=down until it's remedied, inspected, and
> certified to be back up. There are Facebook groups and pages that track
> this. For example,
> https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02RVVnXmsTQ5LFHZATQbEvrFoTxaQVPn16HxjPyAQxq1iYMmm1X1ss7Fg5FqSsHPJel&id=52052821389
> This is unique, as we're talking about an area which may not just change,
> but may be entirely invalid until recertified.
>

That is because modern urban eruvim are physically made of long loops of
wire. These wires are verifiable by looking at them. In fact, rabbis do
that weekly for each eruv to make sure they're ready for Shabbat, as shown
in the linked Facebook post.

The wire on the very top the pole here is the Meyerland eruv. Check it out
next time you go on a walk:
https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=29.675481000000005&lng=-95.48206699999997&z=19.9&pKey=906556959914659&focus=photo&x=0.6050377855768525&y=0.30401015321097824&zoom=0.722868532261062

In short, this is verifiable infrastructure. Just because it has a
religious meaning doesn't mean it isn't there. Absolutely do not delete.

-Clay
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