[Tagging] Charity tagging

[Laurence Penney]

On 6 Dec 2010, at 20:51, Craig Wallace wrote:
> Or another idea would be to tag them with something like "operator:type" or similar. eg:
> 
> shop=books
> operator=Oxfam
> operator:type=charity

I like this.

> This could be expanded for a wide variety of other operator types - there are many organisations that provide "worthwhile" services, but are
> not registered charities.
> eg you could tag as operator:type=social_enterprise or operator:type=workers_cooperative or operator:type=government etc.

Sounds like it would work well. I would like to have tagged a couple of cooperatives as such last week, but didn't bother.

> Also, I'm not sure about just tagging generic charity shops as
> shop=second_hand. They may mostly sell second hand goods, but they often
> have a range of new things as well, eg food or craft stuff.
> I think shop=second_hand is more for a place like Cash Converters etc,
> charity shops are a quite distinct thing from that.

Although it's perhaps a cliché, many thousands of charity shops do indeed sell, principally, second-hand, donated goods of a variety of types: clothes, toys, jewellery, cameras, books. I think that 'second_hand' value makes sense. For those shops that prominently sell new gifts, chocolate and cards, well - we have the semicolon...

- L