On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 08:25:33 +0200 Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One of the discussion points on her diary entry was female hygiene > products found in women's toilets. How is a man going to map that, > without access to women's toilets ? > > The real question for me is are men more likely going to map shop=car > than shop=clothes;clothes=underwear/fashion/ ... (sorry for the > stereotyping) > will men map leisure=playground or amenity=pub ? > will a roman catholic map a mosque ? > will a non-dog owner map leisure=dog_park ? > > in short: will we map everything we see or do we map only our > interests ? Furthermore, do we really see everything or do we only see > (and map) things we are conditioned to ? > > This is not about buildings, addresses, roads and paths. They are > pretty gender neutral I think. It's about POIs. I know I map what I see (or more precisely, what my camera captures). If it doesn't have a sign out front, I don't map it. To take an example from the midwives vs. strip clubs debate, the phone book lists seven midwives and/or midwife groups in the Spokane area. Of those, three are attached to hospitals and one to a community-health clinic, and so wouldn't have signs. Two are operating out of private homes and don't have signs (and I wouldn't map them if they did, just like I don't map lawn care or computer repair businesses operating out of private homes). The last one is in the 95% of the city I haven't yet photo-mapped. The phone book lists zero strip clubs in the Spokane area. Despite that, I've found and mapped one strip club: it was on a major street and had a clear sign out front. Yes, there's a bias in my mapping, but it's a bias towards "things identifiable from the street". I'm more likely to map a car store than a clothes store, because car stores are generally not found inside shopping malls. Playgrounds beat pubs, because every playground is visible from the street. And this non-dog-owner didn't map the dog park, because it was already mapped by the time I got started. -- Mark _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
