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Apartheid is alive and well
May. 27th, 2009 09:51 amOne 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.
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.
