[Tagging] Proposal for COVID Vouchers

[Damjan Gerl]

Francesco Ansanelli je 19.5.2020 ob 17:33 napisal:
> Hello,
>
> Il giorno mar 19 mag 2020 alle ore 16:57 Martin Koppenhoefer 
> <dieterdreist at gmail.com <mailto:dieterdreist at gmail.com>> ha scritto:
>
>     Am Di., 19. Mai 2020 um 14:55 Uhr schrieb Rossella Di Bari
>     <dbrossella at gmail.com <mailto:dbrossella at gmail.com>>:
>
>         Hi! I am Rossella, an italian neo-mapper, nice to meet you :)
>         In Talk-It [1] we get into a debate on vouchers, provided by
>         the Government, for the purchase of essential goods, to
>         support the families in need in COVID time.
>         The vouchers are similar to SNAP or food stamps, they can also
>         be used to purchase essential supplies like medicines (not
>         just for food) and entitle to a certain percentage discount.
>
>
>
>     right
>
>         I am posting here because it came forward the need to tag
>         supermarkets and pharmacies that accept the COVID vouchers as
>         a payment method and it's time for a broad debate.
>         Searching on Taginfo [2], i have found
>         payment:service_vouchers:covid19=yes used only 5 times and it
>         seems to be the most suitable tag because these specific vouchers:
>
>           * are a payment method;
>           * (in my opinion) can be considered a service_voucher as "a
>             financial instrument which allows a public authority to
>             target social services at those it deems in need" [3];
>
>
>
>     if you read along the wikipedia page you have quoted, it says
>     about the services "These might include for example home care
>     <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_care>, household repairs,
>     ironing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironing>, or bicycle
>     <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle> hire and repair."
>
>     "Food" you buy in a supermarket is not a service, neither
>     pharmaceuticals are. It would be a service to deliver your
>     purchase at your home, but the things you buy can not be regarded
>     a "service", and the payment:service_voucher tag (IMHO) does not
>     apply to these vouchers you want to map the acceptance of.
>
>
> I have to partially agree with Martin, even if the "meal vouchers" 
> definition is too strict for the case in subject. How about a simple: 
> "payment:voucher:covid19=yes"
>
> As I've already noted the tag: payment:service_vouchers:covid19=yes
> should be written without the extra "s": 
> payment:service_voucher:covid19=yes
> and I could live with it, if we fix them all (5).

No problem to fix this 5 tags (I'm the author of this 5 used tags) when 
the tag will be defined.

>
>     Are you sure there is a distinct category of objects that accept
>     "buoni spesa" for COVID, that is not identitcal with the list of
>     those objects that accept payment with "reddito di cittadinanza"
>     (more general social care, not related to COVID)? I think I have
>     read they are the same (but it could eventually depend on the
>     region). If there are no differences, we could map the acceptance
>     of food vouchers for COVID the same as we map acceptance of
>     reddito di cittadinanza (i.e. the latter would imply the former
>     and would not require explicit mapping).
>
>
> First of all, I think COVID-19 mapping should be suffixed by 
> ":covid19" and should never be assumed by default even if similar 
> services are given, then please also mind that "reddito di 
> cittadinanza" is AFAICT a debit Mastercard:
> https://confcommerciogorizia.it/2019/06/14/reddito-di-cittadinanza-2019-in-quali-negozi-si-potra-spendere/
>
> At the bottom of the page you can see how the voucher are (last picture):
> http://www.comune.cuneo.it/emergenza-covid-19-a-cuneo/spendiamoci-buono-spesa-alimentare.html
>
> My only concern is that in my opinion, these vouchers cannot be spent 
> outside of the municipality that printed it, so I would also encourage 
> a tagging scheme like this:
>
> payment:(service_)voucher:covid19=yes
> payment:(service_)voucher:issued_by:covid19=Comune di Cuneo

But maybe issued_by can be omitted, because can be deduced by position 
(should be in the same municipality)?
I'm ok with both schemes (with or without service_).

BR,
Damjan


>
> Cheers
> Francesco
>
>
>     Cheers
>     Martin
>