It has been raised on a private discussion if we could mention whether
a private house or an industrial site has a guard dog that is easily
identifiable by its barking. It is my viewpoint that from a mapping
ethics standpoint, we should not map this because it may compromise a
home's security. What do you think?

On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 12:01 PM bkil <bkil.hu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I welcome your comments on the following proposal:
>
> Those with vision impairment should also have the right to explore and
> map their surroundings in ways appropriate for them. We should have a
> unified way to specify the kind of noise that is generated by an
> object. The most useful ones are those which are right beside a
> footway and which is clearly audible when walking by.
>
> The existing documentation for man_made=street_cabinet should be
> updated to deprecate sound=* and the few existing OSM occurrences for
> this tag combination along with power=* should be changed to use
> audible=*.
>
> The following mistaggings of traffic_signals:sound=* should also be
> eliminated manually: sound=* (in the right combination),
> crossing:signals:sound=*, crossing:sound=*.
>
>
> See the proposal page for details:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Objects_generating_audible_cues

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