The situation you describe is a social hazard, and if continued it would lead to mapping social hotspots in general, which would be a very controversial issue, that could be seen as discrimination by people living there.
In larger towns you see lots of warnings, e.g. pickpocketing in crowded places or public transport systems -- where would we draw the line? tom Kieron Thwaites wrote on 2015-11-10 10:24:
Hi, I recently passed through an intersection in a particularly dodgy part of town that actually had warning signs up, warning motorists that said intersection is a hotspot for "smash and grab" robberies. (If anyone is interested, it's on Google Streetview too: https://goo.gl/maps/kYkdMR9Kmpk) I'd like to add this information to OSM -- certainly, it could be used by routing software to avoid the area unless there was no other sensible alternative. However, I'm not sure how best to tag it. The only thing that I've found is the proposed "hazard" tag (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/hazard), but as it seems to be in a permanent draft state (since 2009), I'm not sure if this is the best solution. Are there better, more current ways of tagging things like these, or is the proposed "hazard" tag the best option?
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