I understand why refugee camps have been mapped with amenity=social_facility - it's the closest existing tag, since tourism=camp_site is clearly wrong and landuse=residential isn't quite right.
However, I don't think that large refugee camps are a perfect fit for amenity=social_facility. Most of these are group homes (eg orphanages), nursing homes (for the elderly), hospices, assisted living facilities, homeless shelters, outreach facilities for the homelss, etc - they provide services for vulnerable groups in the community who have difficulty living on their own. Refugee camps are closer to an informal residential settlement in many developing countries, especially those that are larger or have been in place for more than a few months (these are the ones most likely to be mapped, I believe). I would encourage creating a proposal and a new tag specifically for these sorts of places. There could perhaps be a distinction between sites for people temporarily displaced locally (eg a camp for people in the same town, after a flood) versus long-distance or international migrants. On 6/10/19, Jan S <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 6/6/2019 5:27 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >>* I'd suggest something like social_facility=temporary_housing. >> *>>>* To me, social_facility doesn't quite cut it for "refugees". >> Refugees >> *>* strike me as people fleeing from war / massive natural disaster - >> *>* social_facility comes across as small scale for homeless people / >> *>* women's refuge sort of thing? >> *>>Browsing through the values of social_facility:for, it's a lot more >> diverse than just victims of abuse and poverty -- and >> social_facility:for=refugee(s) has hundreds of uses. But you definitely >> have a point about scale -- some of these camps house over a hundred >> thousand people. That's on the scale of a small city -- a community, not >> a facility. So maybe place=refugee_camp is a better solution. >> >> J >> >> > Picking up the subject again (and having noticed that the refugee camps I > know in my area are not tagged at all or at least very rudimentary simply > as amenity=social_facility), I've done another search on the internet and > have dug up this wiki page: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Refugee_Camp_Mapping > > It's been modified in 2018 for the last time, is quite rudimentary in the > description of the tags and values proposed and apparently oriented mainly > at makeshift camps in Africa or the Levante. It would be an effort to bring > some order into this and to make it more diverse (covering anything from > spontaneous camps like the infamous Jungle in Calais or the already > dismantled Idomeini camp, to permanent structures like asylum-seeker > reception centres like this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/390153052). > > I'll see if I can give it a try over the next weeks... or would that be a > task for a coordinated action? > > Best, Jan > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
