[OSM-talk] Mapping party suggestion for SOTM

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Tim Waters (chippy) wrote:
>Sent: 09 July 2009 10:34 AM
>To: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
>Cc: openstreetmap
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party suggestion for SOTM
>
>2009/7/9 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com>:
>> A few months ago in some local news media a talking head claimed that
>> Amsterdam's Red Light District wasn't in central Amsterdam and
>> moreover that it didn't contain any Coffee shops, i.e. ones of the
>> type that'll sell you more than just beverages.
>>
>> So of course I headed over to OSM to prove both of these to be
>> incorrect. Only to find to my disappointment that not only did the map
>> of Amsterdam not have an area (or even a POI!) for the Red Light
>> district, it also didn't have any sort of tagging schema for
>> aforementioned Coffee shops.
>>
>> (Incidental after some searching around this is the best map I can
>> find showing those two features:
>> http://www.coffeeshop.freeuk.com/Map.html)
>>
>> So here's hoping that SOTM visitors to Amsterdam will be able to
>> rectify this situation.
>>
>> The problem of coming up with a tagging schema for POIs applicable to
>> these two categories I leave to you.
>>
>
>I think that would be an interesting little micro mapping party.
>

Perhaps it may have already been done. Grant looked like he might have been
in the area on Thursday ;-)

Cheers

Andy

>Brings up the subject of how to map known "illegal establishments" -
>we should map the truth on the ground, we should map their land use as
>something like "brothel" and "recreational drug shop", in my opinion.
>
>In a few countries, the law looks the other way, or are facing
>loopholes, - the places name themselves "massage parlour", "coffee
>shop" but people passing by know what they are really for. Added to
>this is the threat that these places may take offence (sue?) at being
>labeled as doing illegal things (even though they may well be).
>
>Tim
>
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