[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC: Reverse Vending Machine

[Kotya Karapetyan]

I like the proposal. In Germany and in the Netherlands these machines
are common and it is indeed important to know where one can find the
nearest one. They are usually not operator-specific, though the
voucher they issue can be redeemed only within the operator shop (or
network).

I have no clue how these machines are called in English, but
refund_machine sounds generic enough.

Remark 1: I wonder if we also want to indicate whether the machine is
inside or outside the shop and if it is accessible outside working
hours.

Remark 2: Also some shops have multiple such machines (e.g. for glass
and plastic), and OSM tagging scheme doesn't allow assigning the same
key twice to one node. As a suggestion, we could ignore the fact that
these are two (or more) separate machines and map it as one.

Cheers,
Kotya

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 12:58 PM, makko <makko at brainscorch.net> wrote:
> On 11.01.2015 12:50, SomeoneElse wrote:
>>
>> In the UK, it isn't common - at least, I'd not heard of it before this
>> thread.
>>
>> Interestingly, one of the links from the WP page is to a UK company that
>> claims to have a trademark on the term.
>
>
> I see. Perhaps then it would better to use:
>
> amenity:refund_machine
>
> Since the term might be very broad, it would also fit with the other
> proposed tags to be used in the future, if there might be other sorts of
> refund machines.
>
>
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