<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-02-16 9:41 GMT+01:00 Dalibor Jelínek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dalibor@dalibor.cz" target="_blank">dalibor@dalibor.cz</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CS">I have tried to document the tag vending=public_transport_plans used as an extension of amenity=vending_machine.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CS">This tag is a part of JOSM preset for a long time so it should be documented.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CS">But then I have reailized that I maybe do not understand this tag correctly.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CS"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CS">Do those plans mean maps?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CS">Or is it some kind of prolongation of pre-paid transport tickets (similar to cell phone plan)?</span></p></blockquote></div><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">+1, agree it is ambiguous, but would suspect it is about prepaid tickets (because some have payment tags).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I would also like to point out that a vending_machine is about vending, so it should be able to process payments in some way (be it cash, credit cards, voucher codes, rfid virtual money or whatever), while the devices set up to give things away for free are a different typology because there's no way to process payments and the term "vending" does not apply. This is also what the wiki says about amenity=vending_machine. We could use the term dispenser and the scheme could be similar to vending machines:<br><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">* amenity=dispensing_device (or dispenser? Which do you prefer?)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">* dispensing=...<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">btw., the tem "dispensing" would fit well for both types of devices.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Given sufficient support, we might also migrate the excrement_bags and maybe some other ill-classified items from vending...<br><br>Let's take a look at the mostly used values in the vending key: <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/vending#values">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/vending#values</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>These don't fit well neither in "vending" nor in "dispensing" (because they provide a service and no item is dispensed):<br>* parcel_pickup;parcel_mail_in<br>* parcel_pickup<br>* parcel_mail_in<br>* elongated_coin<br>* locker<br>* rice_polishing<br><br><br>This might also be dispensed rather than sold (like excrement bags, they could also be sold, it depends):<br>* syringes</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="gmail-overflow"><br><br><br>For the first group I'd propose to use 3 new "main tags": <br>1. parcel pickup / mail in (e.g. amenity=parcel_station or =post_machine or =self_service_parcel_mail, etc. and subtags for pickup and outgoing)<br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="gmail-overflow">2. services like elongated_coin, rice_polishing, shoe_polishing, massage, scales ( <a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/9/77652112_8182668a04_m.jpg">http://farm1.static.flickr.com/9/77652112_8182668a04_m.jpg</a> ), e.g. amenity=service_machine<br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="gmail-overflow">3. locker (there's amenity=luggage_locker and amenity=locker in use but no public wiki docu)<br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Martin<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
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