[Tagging] Bitcoin ATM (amenity=atm | currency:XBT=yes)

[Janko Mihelić]

2014-06-09 22:12 GMT+02:00 nounours77 <kuessemondtaeglich at gmail.com>:

>
> Should we tag flat areas as "natural=peak" "ele=0" and then tell the
> renderer not to render it as a mountain?
>

No, because that's not a peak.


> Should we tag deserts as "water=lake" and "type=dry" to tell the renderer
> to render it yellow instead of blue?
>

No, because that's not a lake.


> Go out and ask hundred people on the street what a ATM is - and everybody
> will answer you the same thing. Nobody will tell you "an ATM is an machine
> which does NOT give you money"! We use human-readable words as tags, so we
> have to stick to their meanings.
>

Well, it does give you money. Just not paper money.

What if it gave you paper money for Bitcoins? Would it be an ATM then? What
if there's a shop that only works with bitcoins? Is it a shop?

An ATM isn't a machine that gives you paper money, the term is broader than
that.

But please do not do it in a way that interferes with what others are doing
> for a long time. So, you want advertise Bitcoin on OSM (what I really think
> is not the place for this - but o.k. ...)
>

I don't get how tagging something correctly is advertising.

I'm not that stubborn, if people are against tagging Bitcoin ATMs as
amenity=atm I'm fine with that. An alternative could be
amenity=bitcoin_atm. Maybe there should be a vote.

Janko
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