[Tagging] camp sites in Haiti

[Warin]

On 12/10/22 02:05, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
> > Would it be possible to re-tag those refugee camps in an automated 
> edit? … I'm not even sure if they all still exist 12 years later.
>
> It would not be possible, because we do not know if they still exist.


So you leave them with an incorrect tag?

I'd re-tag them.. but only after looking at imagery to see if they are 
refugee sites.

And I'd try to find the most upto date imagery to confirm there 
existence ..


>
> However a local mapper or someone who has visited the area could 
> re-tag them, after confirming that they still exist and are in fact 
> refugee sites


A local mapper or visitor can also confirm or delete them after they 
have been retagged by a remote mapper.

And after 212 years of inactivity the change may prompt a local to think 
about these sites.

>
> -Joseph Eisenberg
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 4:20 AM Anne-Karoline Distel 
> <annekadistel at web.de> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I noticed that many of the refugee camps in Haiti are tagged as
>     tourism=camp_site which made me uneasy. Turns out there is the tag
>     amenity=refugee_site. Would it be possible to re-tag those refugee
>     camps
>     in an automated edit? There are about 60 or 70 mapped. I'm not
>     even sure
>     if they all still exist 12 years later.
>
>     Anne
>
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