[Tagging] Tagging of movie rental kiosk

Andreas Goss andig88 at t-online.de
Thu Sep 4 13:46:25 UTC 2014


Creating all this vending machine stuff in the Wiki I wish that tag 
would have been something like machinie or automat. That would make it a 
lot easier. Then we wouldn't have the discussion over and over again 
also with all those parcel services. I guess machinie is to confusing 
and automat does not really seem to be common in English. Because then 
we could just combine it with rental= or service=.

> I think we shouldn't. I am aware that some mappers are using the
> vending_machine tag for kinds of machines that distribute something or
> offer some service without selling anything, but we should discourage
> this IMHO. We don't use vending=cash for ATMs and we shouldn't use it
> for machines that don't sell anything. A few people using a tag with
> wrong semantics is no good reason to officially recommend this tagging
> (I write a few because as of now there are according to taginfo 27
> vending=dvd and 7 vending=video and some more minor numbers for
> variants, this really doesn't qualify for "sooo many" even if we assumed
> that all those were for renting and not for selling - if I haven't
> overlooked something here).
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