On 2/16/2020 8:21 AM, Steve Doerr wrote:
On 15/02/2020 16:56, Markus Peloso wrote:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/in-kind_donation
For a place that takes in-kind donations.
My immediate reaction is that this sounds like a very similar concept
to 'give box', which was the subject of a recent RFC. Do we need two
ways of tagging such similar things?
The defining feature of the give box is that the public can freely
access it for both giving and taking. With this feature (in-kind
donation) the public can give goods but wouldn't expect to freely take
things that others have given.
It's similar to recycling but implies that the goods are reused rather
than used as raw materials. Personally I feel this is a bit of a
continuum and I don't see a problem with tagging in-kind donation sites
as a type of recycling.
On 2/16/2020 8:28 AM, Steve Doerr wrote:
Anyway, it's a quirk of the English language that a phrase that
normally consists of separate words is generally hyphenated when it is
used 'attributively', i.e. as a quasi-adjective before a noun. So I
might write, 'He made a donation in kind' but 'He made an in-kind
donation'.
A well-put description! The phrase is hyphenated when it functions as an
adjective. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound#Hyphenated_compound_modifiers
for some other examples and exceptions.
J
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