[OSM-newbies] recycling area and trash disposal

Pierre-André Jacquod pjacquod at alumni.ethz.ch
Thu Aug 7 22:15:42 BST 2008


Hi,
I have started to map a region south of Switzerland. Since I am almost
finished with roads in a village (that's a small one), I want to start
with tags and POI.

But for trash / waste disposal I have the following issue: we have
collecting points for glass which I could render with
<tag k="amenity" v="recycling"/> and pointing out: recycling:glass=yes
But how do I render the trash part? (That is at the same place, but
collected trash will be burned? Just to say, buy us, we have to collect 
trash at some well-defined places, there is no pick-up in front of each 
/ some houses, rural area...)

I could use:
tag k="amenity" v="waste_disposal"/>
<tag k="waste" v="trash"/>
but into the wiki, it is stated:
> This tag is for places where sailors, motor boat drivers, canal
> boaters, caravanners etc. can dispose of rubbish (trash/waste).
which is definitively not the case.

Using recycling:trash=yes seems me also a bit strange... that is not 
exactly recycling... but would be most probably the more accurate way to 
map it?

By the way, this lead me to a second question, since I did not find the
answer (or is not clear for me) within the wiki:
what would be the right syntax:
<tag k="amenity" v="recycling:glass=yes"/>
or
<tag k="amenity" v="recycling"/>
<tag k="recycling:glass" v="yes"/>

Thanks in advance for your help /hints
Pierre-André Jacquod






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