[OSM-newbies] recycling area and trash disposal

[David Groom]

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pierre-André Jacquod" <pjacquod at alumni.ethz.ch>
> To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:15 PM
> Subject: [OSM-newbies] recycling area and trash disposal
>
>
> 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?
>
two options:

1) amend the wiki page so the amenity=waste_disposal tag is suggested to be 
used for more general use

2) propose a new feature such as amenity=waste_collection

David

> 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
>