This should be tagged in a different way that uses fact instead of opinion/fiction. Perhaps by referring to crime statistics for a given boundary area.
Cheers Andy >-----Original Message----- >From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk- >boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of NL >Sent: 30 March 2009 3:42 AM >To: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: [OSM-talk] Tagging dangerous areas > >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 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk