Proposal talk:Hostile Architecture
Example
Nice proposal, but some images and details on what exactly counts as "Hostile Architecture" and what is just not thought through would be nice. Emilius123 (talk) 14:48, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
Tag Suggestions
I came across a fixme on a bench to tag with "'homeless resistant' tagging". I think this kind of architecture is often associated with benches, though it is certainly in other circumstances. I suggest something like hostile_architecture=*. As a generic hostile_architecture=yes it would refer to any sort of impediment to comfort. This could then be refined to hostile_architecture=armrest, =spikes, =skatestoppers, =fence, =slope, etc. One annoyance is that "hostile_architecture" is quite a long key name. I don't know how to shorten it, though. --pkoby (talk) 13:33, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
Proposal to change 'useless_armrest'
I propose to shorten the value useless_armrest to just armrest for the following reasons:
- The word 'useless' is superfluous, it doesn't add any information the 'hostile' part of the key doesn't already address
- It is objectively wrong since the armrest serves, by design, the purpose of supporting ones arm
- 'useless' is a subjective opinion which is unprofessional and doesn't belong in OSM
- This unprofessionalism detracts from the validity of this proposal
- Shorter values are obviously easier to type, remember etc.