Hi folks,

During the #geowebchat Twitter meeting I "met" (as close as you can meet someone on Twitter) a woman who is writing her dissertation about Open Street Maps and the representation of women's health and childcare and related subjects in the open source geo spatial community.

I decided to search, on Open Street Maps, for Planned Parenthood (a (primarily) women's health services non-profit organization located throughout the United States) and had no results. While there are a few results for childcare[1].

So, when you search for...strip club you get a nice collection of icons for strip club (NSFW)[2] used as definers. There are no definers for women's health or childcare.

While I should not be surprised, I was disappointed to find this out. Looks like, when my schedule allows it, an OSM street mapping party will have to take place for women's health, history and related subjects!

-Sarah


[1]http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/childcare
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=strip%20club&fulltext=Search&ns6=1&redirs=1
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Sarah Stierch
Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow
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