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=st...
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.comwrote:
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].
For DC, we imported the city's liquor establishment data, which includes liquor stores, pubs, bars, and yes adult establishments. I tried carefully to make sure we didn't miscategorize any adult establishments as a pub.
I'm not sure the city has a dataset for women's health services, but if they do it would be great to add those also. There is a dataset for child care in DC but it's 6 years old, probably a bit inaccurate and not a good dataset to import.
That would at least help explain it for DC, but I can't say about other places.
Cheers, Katie
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=st... -- *Sarah Stierch* *Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow*
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