Hi,
Did you think about adding refugee=yes tag on place=* ?
There were also an idea, if you have the boundary to develop rules
around boundary, similar to boundary = administrative to
boundary=refugee see
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Refugee_Camp_Boundaries
I also think is is something to dig in and happy to help...
Best,
V
On 11/06/2019 05:39, Jan S wrote:
Am 10. Juni 2019 22:05:53 MESZ schrieb Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com>:
The refugee camps I'm familiar with in Thailand are not social
facilities
except in an incidental way. They are essentially internment camps
surrounded by fences with guarded gates where undocumented aliens are
kept.
They are landuse=residential because they're isolated areas in the
countryside and contain permanent dwellings but having no other way to
tag
it at the time, I tagged a big refugee camp near Mae Sot as place=town
and
name=Mae La Refugee Camp. As for the refugee aspect, I made a note and
left
it at that.
I have my doubts whether place=town is the appropriate tag for a fenced living
area, where people are obliged to live. Why wouldn't a big prison be place=town
then, too (just have a look at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmasola)?
I'm not sure which approach would be better between social_facility,
amenity or what have you, but any tourism-related tag definitely will
not
work.
My idea of a refugee camp is that there's some kind of social service, either
public or private, like food distribution, medical attention, maybe housing or
tents being provided by the government, UNHCR, or whomever. Would anything like
that apply to the camps in Thailand you've described? If yes, I wouldn't have
issues with using social_facility...
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