[Tagging] [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (Trolley)

[Steve Bennett]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Adrien Pavie <dri60 at laposte.net> wrote:
>
> Hello, I send a proposal "Trolley" (in part "shop") and I send this RFC to get
> opinions about this. This is a direct link :
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Trolley
>
> The tag is for know if a shop has trolleys. All the details are in the wiki.
> Thanks in advance for comments.

Two big issues I see (ignoring the fascinating issue of cart vs trolley):
1) Who cares if a shop has trolleys or not? Big supermarkets do. Tiny
ones don't. They have baskets instead. Is it really worth mapping?
Should we also map the number of checkouts? The number of aisles? The
colour of the staff's uniforms?
2) Airport trolleys and supermarket trolleys are really unrelated. And
if we're mapping airport trolleys, we'd be talking about mapping
nodes: "you can collect trolleys here".

Also, if mapping as a property of a shop, then make the tag resemble
that: "shop:trolleys=yes", not "amenity=trolley".

Steve