[OSM-talk] Tagging dangerous areas

[NL]

This isn't a formal proposal so much as presenting an idea. When i was
booking a hotel recently for travel, a friend who knew the area advised me
that it was a dangerous neighborhood. That allowed me to find a different
hotel in a safer area and possibly save myself some unpleasantness. This
kind of word-of-mouth knowledge is the kind of thing open projects can excel
at providing. The problem, of course, is a metric for something as
subjective as "dangerous neighborhood". It it dangerous at 12:00 or at
01:00? Is it unsafe to park a bike/car there?

Would some tagging system to indicate dangerous area be desirable, and how
would it best be implemented?

Cheers
P
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