My goodness, all this anxiety! Why are you feeling that
you have to justify what you map, just because someone is
studying it by gender?
Charlotte
At 10:10 AM 9/5/2017, you wrote:
On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 08:25:33 +0200 Marc Gemis <[email protected]>
wrote: > One of the discussion points on her diary entry was female
hygiene > products found in women's toilets. How is a man going to
map that, > without access to women's toilets ? > > The real
question for me is are men more likely going to map shop=car > than
shop=clothes;clothes=underwear/fashion/ ... (sorry for the >
stereotyping) > will men map leisure=playground or amenity=pub ? >
will a roman catholic map a mosque ? > will a non-dog owner map
leisure=dog_park ? > > in short: will we map everything we see or
do we map only our > interests ? Furthermore, do we really see
everything or do we only see > (and map) things we are conditioned
to ? > > This is not about buildings, addresses, roads and paths. They are
> pretty gender neutral I think. It's about POIs.
I know I map what I see (or more precisely, what my camera
captures). If it doesn't have a sign out front, I don't map it.
To take an example from the midwives vs. strip clubs debate,
the phone book lists seven midwives and/or midwife groups
in the Spokane area. Of those, three are attached to hospitals
and one to a community-health clinic, and so wouldn't have
signs. Two are operating out of private homes and don't have
signs (and I wouldn't map them if they did, just like I don't map
lawn care or computer repair businesses operating out of
private homes).
The last one is in the 95% of the city I haven't yet photo-mapped.
The phone book lists zero strip clubs in the Spokane area.
Despite that, I've found and mapped one strip club: it was on a
major street and had a clear sign out front.
Yes, there's a bias in my mapping, but it's a bias towards
"things identifiable from the street." I'm more likely to map a car
store than a clothes store, because car stores are generally
not found inside shopping malls. Playgrounds beat pubs,
because every playground is visible from the street. And this
non-dog-owner didn't map the dog park, because it was
already mapped by the time I got started.
-- Mark
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