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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-06-10 11:44 GMT+02:00 Jean-Marc Liotier <jm at liotier.org>:

> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Teller_Machine)
>
> So an ATM that manages Bitcoin transactions is most definitely amenity=atm.
>



wikipedia is not the Bible nor the Coran, it is obvious that there are some
flaws in this article, the first paragraph states: "An *automated teller
machine* or *automatic teller machine*[1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Teller_Machine#cite_note-1>[2]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Teller_Machine#cite_note-2>[3]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Teller_Machine#cite_note-3> (*ATM*,
American <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English>, Australian
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English>, Singaporean
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singaporean_English>, Indian
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English>, and Hiberno-English
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English>), also known as an *automated
banking machine* (*ABM*, Canadian English
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_English>), *cash machine*,
*cashpoint*, *cashline*, or colloquially

*hole in the wall..."*
It mixes different (sub)-typologies into one article, clearly there are at
least subtle differences between an ATM as given by the former definition
and a "cash machine" (which is clearly about cash).

If you look this up in the Oxford dictionary you get this definition:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/automated-teller-machine?q=Automated+teller+machine
"A machine that automatically provides cash and performs other banking
services on insertion of a special card by the account holder."
you can see there is no "or" but an "and" between cash and "other banking
services" ;-)

I understand that atm can be seen as broadly as incorporating all kind of
automated telling even in the absence of actually emitting cash, but I
would prefer to use a different tag for this and use atm for machines that
actually do give you cash.

cheers,
Martin
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