[Tagging] Charity tagging

[Sean Horgan]

Thanks John.

How do people feel about this change to the social_facility key:

+social_facility=shop
+donation={yes|no|call_first}

I'll add some examples of a donation center as well.

--
Sean

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 15:55, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:

> I would recommend a donation=yes|no|call_first flag, or the equivalent, as
> it has been my experience that certain thrift shops only accept donations at
> certain days of the week, when enough personnel are on duty to handle both
> the sales and donation-receiving duties.  Also, you may have a situation
> where, due to limited storage space, only some locations accept bulky
> donations such as furniture or large appliances.
>
> -------Original Email-------
> Subject :Re: [Tagging] Charity tagging
> From  :mailto:sean.horgan at gmail.com
> Date  :Fri Nov 26 14:36:47 America/Chicago 2010
>
>
> In the discussion during the social facility proposal, we thought about
> shops:
>
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/social_facility
>
>
> but left it that shop=charity was more appropriate.  However, we do have
> social_facility=food_bank which is a step towards a charity-oriented shop,
> one that specifically gives away food.
>
>
> Thinking about it from an end-user perspective, I could see 2 types of
> people with respect to charitable merchandise:
>
>
> 1. Those that are looking for a place to donate goods, whether they are
> food, clothing, household items, book, even a car
> 2. Those that are looking for a place to buy second-hand/cheap goods from a
> store that has social welfare as a higher priority than profits
>
>
> In either case, the shop key handles the description of the actual
> merchandise (shop=clothes, shop=books, etc).  I think a new type of social
> facility would help describe the business model as Laurence mentioned:
>
>
> social_facility=shop
>
>
> So for both types of users, they would add the social_facility=shop tag to
> their search.  We may want to have an explicit "donation={yes,no}" tag, I'm
> not sure if that is necessary.
>
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 19:19, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com<mailto:
> dieterdreist at gmail.com> > wrote:
>  2010/11/22 Laurence Penney <lorp at lorp.org <mailto:lorp at lorp.org> >:
>
> > I've also tagged several charity bookshops as shop=books. For these it
> seemed even more important to model the type of thing you can buy, rather
> than the business model - but that may be because I buy lots of second hand
> books and only a few second hand clothes.
>
>
>  you can combine shop and social_facility without any problem, if you
>  would like to tag it as charity as well.
>
>  cheers,
>  Martin
>
>
>
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