While looking to add appropriate "vending" tags into the name suggestion index project <https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index> I came across a US based Redbox vending machine brand.
I'm across the globe so not familiar with it personally, but reading the wikipedia page <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbox> it seems to dispense DVD and Blu-ray rentals. Unfortunately there's no clear "vending" tag for this (the OSM wiki page <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dvending_machine>) so I wanted to gather thoughts here as to what would be most appropriate (and perhaps formalise this on the wiki). Using overpass turbo I queried all the Redbox vending machines tagged with "vending" and the most common value (57 occurrences) is "vending=dvd". While this seems pretty appropriate, it's also not entirely accurate as it sounds like they also provide blu-ray rentals (plus they can be movies or games). All other values are variations of "movies", "media", "video_games" or lists combining these. However, there's also the question as to whether "vending" is even the correct tag to use. An OSM help question from November 2012 <https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/17987/how-should-i-tag-a-redbox-dvd-blu-ray-and-video-game-rental-vending-machine> on this very subject receives a suggestion to use the "rental" tag instead (0 results using overpass turbo for Redbox machines with this tag). Any thoughts are appreciated!
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