[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - key:rubbish=

[Dave Swarthout]

Er, not the tag. I meant the term dump station.


On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.com>
wrote:

> How long can this discussion continue?
>
> Several agree that waste=dump_station is ambiguous, and I think all the
> other top level waste=* proposals are too. That tag must be subservient to
> another top level tag to remove its inhereht ambiguity
>
> I'm pushing for amenity=dump_station because it isn't ambiguous and is in
> relatively common use.
>
> Let's try approaching this a different way: what are some reasons for
> _not_ adopting this tag? I don't buy into the notion that there are too
> many amenity tags. A dump_station is just as much an amenity as a toilet or
> a parking place.
>
> Dave
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <
> dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 2015-02-18 10:04 GMT+01:00 David Bannon <dbannon at internode.on.net>:
>>
>>> > > I vote for the middle option: waste=dump_station
>>>
>>> > semantically this sounds as if dump_station was a kind of waste, not a
>>> place type to put waste
>>> >
>>> True. But fact is thats the term people use. And using the term people
>>> use in the tag seems a good idea.
>>>
>>
>>
>> there are no occurences of waste=dump_station currently in the db, but
>> there are several thousand subtypes of waste:
>> http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/waste#values
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Please suggest an alternative Martin.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> amenity=dump_station or man_made=dump_station would be the obvious ones.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Martin
>>
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