On 3/03/2015 8:38 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
There are two issues here:
* Use of OSM to store demographic surveys, particularly using tags
that imply the feature is public.
* The wider issue of mapping within a restricted place. Similar
issues occur for amenities inside places (ATM's, AED's, Bike tool
stations, toilets, drinking water). For example a mall toilet is
public in a sense, but time restricted. Here access=destination
(access restrictions are the same as some larger place).
Basically my view is that the scope of the map should primarily focus
on things the public can access, with smatterings of significant
things the public can see or have heard about. Private toilets have
no role here, and are just one step up from mapping private carpets,
house pets and dust motes :-).
The question is what action, if any, should be taken?
My thoughts are;
1) The data it self should be left on the data base. (May be usefull for
some. Stops someone reinstating the data.)
2) new key ... private=* ?
thus change these from amenity=toilet to private=toilet ... also
provides for other 'private' things being entered ..eg swimming pools ..
In an emergency some of these 'private' things are usefull .. for
instance swimming pools are a good water source for fighting fires.
Easy to map form satellite views too.
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