[Tagging] Tagging venues which give away free condoms?

Florimond Berthoux florimond.berthoux at gmail.com
Fri Feb 21 12:30:15 UTC 2020


Hi,

condom=yes
condom:fee=no

(condom is available here)
(free condom, yeah!)

As I suggested in the free drinking_water thread, fee is already used a lot
and has its wiki page.


Le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 à 21:45, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> a écrit :

> Hello fellow tagging fans,
>
>
> Some places give away free condoms to fight the spread of STDs (incl.
> HIV/AIDS). Is there a good way to map that in OSM?
>
> I suggest `free:condoms=yes/no`, since it's descriptive, matches the
> `sells:X=yes/no` scheme. And the `vending:X=yes/no` scheme.
> `vending:condoms=yes/no` has 17 uses, but `vending=condoms` has 1800
> uses. "vending" implies a _machine_. But what I imagine is a place with
> a pile of free condoms ready to take. Either bars, or sexual health
> clinics might have this.
>
> `free=condoms` doesn't read as obvious as `Free Condoms? Yes!"
> (`free:condoms=yes`). A tagging scheme which data consumers can easy
> "deduce" when a human reads the text is a good tagging scheme IMO.
>
> There is `medical_service:condom_distribution=yes/no` with 94 uses,
> which reads too medical. A nighclub with a bowl of free condoms doesn't
> seem like a "medical service", and doesn't sound like a "distribution
> centre".
>
> Clearly if the `free:condoms` tag is missing, you should presume it's
> the same a `free:condoms=no`.
>
> Any feedback? Thoughts? (Hopes? Fears? Dreams? 🙂)
>
>
> --
> Rory
>
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