[OSM-talk] International Womens Day - Mapping locations and dates of incidents on OpenStreetMaps

[Éric Gillet]

I don't think crime stats have their place in OSM, as they don't have a
physical presence on the group, are highly dynamic, and somewhat
subjective/local (some crimes in certain countries are not crimes in other).

2016-02-19 15:28 GMT+01:00 Mhairi O'Hara <mhairi.ohara at hotosm.org>:

> Hello,
>
> Sexual harrassment towards women has been increasing in Bali with a number
> of individuals taking a stand by capturing images to post on Facebook to
> shame and apprehend, and I would like to help assist by empowering women to
> utilise OSM to further highlight and tackle these kinds of issues.
>
> I am thinking of trying to create some kind of harassment map like they
> have in Egypt (http://harassmap.org
> ). Ideally I would like to utilise OSM to capture and present this data
> (type of incident and date, etc), but have not been able to find an
> appropriate tag to use.
>
> The tag 'incident' has been used in the past, once and perhaps
> unofficially. So I was hoping to get some feedback and suggestions on how
> to approach this. In fact the mapping of this kind of data doesn't seem to
> exist on OSM, but is it something the community might be interested in
> exploring?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Mhairi
>
>
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