As you may have noticed, there’s a proposal for giveboxes, public bookshelfes etc on: <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Reuse>. Just as a reminder, here is the first e-mail of the thread:
Tobias <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder if there is already a tag to describe a place where you can > put stuff to others to share. For example you have read a book and do > not need it anymore, but do not want to throw it away. In a > "Bücherregal" > I guess it is translated a "tradeoff" - you can leave this book and > everybody else who likes to become the new owner of the book can pick > it from this place. Tobias also made the Reuse proposal. Here are my comments on the Reuse proposal: - I am okay with the term “reuse”. - I like it how this scheme can be a catch-all tagging scheme for giveboxes, public bookshelves and so on. - “reuse=box”: Please define “box” further. One could interpret “box” just as a cardboard box. I hope this was not intended. - “reuse” - define “reuse:policy=swapping” - I don’t like that “reuse:cds” and “reuse:books” are directly the “reuse” namespace. I suggest to add a new “layer” of information, called “reuse:goods”. The scheme is “reuse:goods:<whatever>” where “<whatever>” is the sort of goods to be shared. “reuse:books” would become “reuse:goods:books” and “reuse:cds” would become “reuse:goods:cds”. Other kinds of goods can be added easily under this scheme without risking name collisions. - I guess “reuse:cds” (or “reuse:goods:cds”) stands for “CDs” (compact discs). I am not with this since there are also DVDs, Bluray discs etc. and just talking about CDs seems to be less useful to me. I also doubt that many {amenity=reuse}s really restict themselves just to CDs but do not allow DVDs or Bluray discs. I therefore suggest the more general term “reuse:optical_discs” (or “reuse:goods:optical_discs”) which stands for all kinds of optical discs like CDs, DVDs, bluray discs etc. - “operator” is described with “company name”. This implies that an amenity=reuse must be operated by a company. This makes amenity=reuse not really useful and is far from reality, since many giveboxes and public bookshelves are not operated by a company. It also contradicts the description of “operator” in the wiki page. I suggest to don’t give a description of “operator” at all. Everything one needs to know about “operator” is already in it’s own wiki page, so reiterating that is just redundant. -- Wuzzy XMPP: [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
