[Tagging] Tag for a scrap yard?

ael law_ence.dev at ntlworld.com
Tue Jul 5 13:39:13 UTC 2016


On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 08:11:04AM +1000, Warin wrote:
> On 7/5/2016 7:50 AM, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 08:26:23PM +0100, Dan S wrote:
> > >> 2016-07-04 20:20 GMT+01:00 ael <law_ence.dev at ntlworld.com>:
> > 
> > apparently the start of the thread is on the GB-talk list.

Yes. Sorry. I thought I had quoted enough to show the original
question.

> > > > rather widely is amenity=recycling + recycling=scrap_metal:
> > 
> > ael wrote on 2016/07/04 22:25:
> > 
> > > The wiki seemed to suggest that was for containers - recycling points
> > > where stuff was left. Which didn't seem to fit.
> > 
> > I cannot find such suggestion. amenity=recycling is distinguished
> > into either recycling_type=centre or recycling_type=container,
> > and you can specify the material among others:
> > recycling:scrap_metal=yes/no

I guess that I somehow overlooked recyling_type=centre.

> > > I used amenity=scrap_yard
> > 
> > Only used 4 times, should be changed as above.
> > 
> > > and scrap-yard=metal
> > 
> > When the related value has an underscore you should not introduce a
> > hyphen here.

Yes: that was just a typo.

> > amenity=recycling   164677x
> > recycling_type=centre 8200x
> > recycling:scrap_metal 9000x

I suppose that is the best option, although it seems more natural to
use recyling_type=business for the place I was tagging.
> 
> Possibly the original feature is a 'bone yard' (american english), 'junk
> yard', wrecking yard' etc. These are where old scraped cars go to have parts
> removed and sold on for use on cars. As such they 'recycle' every thing they
> can off the car - windows, seats, engines, wheels, etc etc ... As such they
> recycle more than just 'metal'

In this case, they don't break vehicles which is a bit more specialised,
I think.

Thanks for the various replies. My scrap_yard tags were only meant to be
temporary self-documenting place holders.

ael




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