2009-05-27

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2009-05-27 09:51 am
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Apartheid is alive and well

One of those weird-but-chilling moments, brought up from a fairly trivial technical question out in OpenStreetMap land.  "How do you tag a road that's one-way for Palestinians, but two-way for Israelis?" 

Way to institutionalize discrimination, there, folks. 

The answer is to treat each lane as a separate way, and negotiate some new restriction tags (much like hgv=no or bicycle=yes, the tag palestinian=no is technically and logically sound, just morally foul), in the meantime using verbose road naming.  Multiple ways present fuss at junctions, as bike lane mappers find regularly, but it works.