Re: [Tagging] Money transfer amenities

2015-04-16 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-04-15 18:51 GMT+02:00 Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com: Western Union is a branded money transfer service offered at many other types of businesses -- including convenience stores, some banks, pawn shops and in some countries post offices. yes, but I have looked only at those

Re: [Tagging] Money transfer amenities

2015-04-16 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: not sure if I'd put the pawnshop in this category, because it opens a whole field of similar stuff (e.g. second hand shops of different types). Around here, also post offices offer services similar to banks (i.e.

Re: [Tagging] Money transfer amenities

2015-04-15 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
Western Union is a branded money transfer service offered at many other types of businesses -- including convenience stores, some banks, pawn shops and in some countries post offices. *The generic services seem to be:* * Currency exchange (e.g. Dollars for CN ¥) * Low Income Lending (e.g.

Re: [Tagging] Money transfer amenities

2015-04-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-04-15 7:37 GMT+02:00 Jan van Bekkum jan.vanbek...@gmail.com: Alternatively you could use brand=moneygram;western_union;orlandi_valuta the most common key for Western Union according to taginfo is name (346) followed by operator (24) and money_transfer (12) plus some variations in name:

Re: [Tagging] Money transfer amenities

2015-04-14 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 23:37 +, Severin Menard wrote: Hi, In Africa, Which country in Africa specifically? It's a huge continent with many different countries. a frequent amenity in icties and towns focus on money transfer. It can be banks abut also specific amenities (called

[Tagging] Money transfer amenities

2015-04-14 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, In Africa, a frequent amenity in icties and towns focus on money transfer. It can be banks abut also specific amenities (called multi-services in Senegal). THe number of money transfer services is often high, as you see on this picture

Re: [Tagging] Money transfer amenities

2015-04-14 Thread Warin
On 15/04/2015 10:09 AM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 23:37 +, Severin Menard wrote: Hi, In Africa, Which country in Africa specifically? It's a huge continent with many different countries. Example country given later .. keep reading. a frequent amenity in cities and

Re: [Tagging] Money transfer amenities

2015-04-14 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Wed, 2015-04-15 at 05:18 +, Jan van Bekkum wrote: As an amenity it is no problem that it is combined with other services (like amenity=toilets), although here (again) I feel shop would be better than amenity. I would recommend to use operator=moneygram rather than

Re: [Tagging] Money transfer amenities

2015-04-14 Thread Jan van Bekkum
Alternatively you could use brand=moneygram;western_union;orlandi_valuta On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 7:28 AM Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com wrote: On Wed, 2015-04-15 at 05:18 +, Jan van Bekkum wrote: As an amenity it is no problem that it is combined with other services (like

Re: [Tagging] Money transfer amenities

2015-04-14 Thread Jan van Bekkum
As an amenity it is no problem that it is combined with other services (like amenity=toilets), although here (again) I feel shop would be better than amenity. I would recommend to use operator=moneygram rather than money_transfer:moneygram=yes to be consistent with other businesses like gas