Hi,
It has been a very long time since I have posted to the mailing list. So please
bear with me if I have landed in the wrong place.
I was recently at a WASH conference (Water,Sanitation,hygiene). We were
discussing Open Defecation, people going to the toilet in the open, specially
in dense urban areas. Open defecation areas ODA are use by about 850 million
people. If they each use 10 different areas a year then that is 8.5 billion
areas.
The only way that this problem can start to be addressed is if we have a map of
the areas. A paper map made by MapOSmatic with theses areas marked would be an
excellent inspiration for local communities to deal with the problem and would
act as competition between local towns and cities to be the cleanest
I have checked with taginfo and there are a few examples on defecation but
nothing officially proposed.
My questions are. Do you think there would be support for this on the
humanitarian tile map render and who should I talk to about adding it to the
humanitarian style sheet if the proposal is accepted.
I believe I could get a lot of enthusiasm from WASH communities, they would
also become enthusiastic mappers because their first ever map was the broad
street pump
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak
Where they used a map to stop cholera
The proposal would be simple node and area with picture of a person squatting.
I would appreciate guidance as I create this.
Many thanks for your time
Bob
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