[Tagging] Community sustainability groups

[Warin]

On 11/04/2016 6:07 PM, KIDWELL Jeremy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I’m new to the list, so apologies if this has come up before. I’m 
> writing to see if there has been any ongoing discussion about how best 
> to tag community groups. In particular, I’m starting with things like 
> community gardens (I realise this category seems to be mostly sorted 
> with ), transition town initiatives, permaculture groups, community 
> development trusts, eco-congregations, etc. I’m most concerned about 
> striking a balance between some metadata which can capture the unique 
> kind of work and geographical footprint these groups have accurately, 
> but also keeping the data broadly accessible. So I’m wondering if 
> tagging as an “amenity” might be better than something a bit more 
> obscure, but am not quite sure that “amenity=social facility” or 
> “amenity=community centre” fully captures the nature of these 
> projects/initiatives. I’m most curious to hear if anyone else has been 
> tagging these groups anywhere else and whether there might be some 
> space for harmonising that work and setting up an OSM wiki.
>
> Thanks in advance for any feedback,
>
> Best,
> Jeremy
>

OSM maps physical objects ... not organisations. All the amenity tags 
are fro objects.

However!
If a physical object is owned or operated by any organisation (business, 
charity, community group etc) then there are tags to place on the 
physical object to indicate this.

operator=  link http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:operator

That wiki page also links to other relevant keys of;
owner=
ownership=
network=

Physical objects include gardens, shops.

But!
OSM does not cope well with plans, initiatives.. a fair few of these 
kind of things don't take physical presence despite the intention to do so.
Usually if something is taking place on the ground (e.g. construction, 
demolition) ..it will be shown on the map, if it is a plan then it won't 
- the people who 'render' the data don't show it.



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