[OSM-talk] Danger zone for pedestrians

[Richard]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 01:35:41PM +0000, Andy Townsend wrote:
> On 05/03/2018 11:49, Richard wrote:
> >this one problem could be (somewhat) solved by conditional restrictions,
> 
> No, this is not an access restriction - people are allowed to go there
> whenever they like; it might just not be advisable.

should have been more precise, the syntax defined in that wiki page
could be easily reused for this.

> I'd be against mapping non-quantifiable risks like this because it fails the
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability test - as has already been
> discussed, one person might feel safe; another may not.  A "feeling of
> safety" likely has little bearing on actual risk (for example, during the
> breakup of Yugoslavia someone was worried about me visiting Prague) and
> there are many problems associated with assuming that one reflects the other
> (see e.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/08/12/the-many-problems-with-sketchfactor-the-new-crime-crowdsourcing-app-that-some-are-calling-racist/
> ).

of course. The jews will encounter different problems than Germans or LGBT
folks. Which imho does not mean that all of these have legitimate concerns.

Richard