[Tagging] Tagging of food declarations in restaurants

[Niels Elgaard Larsen]

På Sat, 6 Nov 2021 14:29:15 +0100
Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> skrev:
>Hi,
>
>On 11/5/21 21:21, Toggenburger Lukas wrote:
>> tl;dr I would like to develop a tagging scheme specifying origin and
>> production methods for food (primarily meat) served in restaurants,
>> as well as some surrounding concepts.

I agree that it is too detailed.


>I don't think that this should be captured in OSM. My argument is 
>essentially the same that I opposed the concepts of "this supermarket 
>uses green energy" or "this shop accepts the following types of
>bitcoin" with - I think that in general this is not geodata, these are
>business decisions by the shop and they can change from one day to the
>next, and we will not be able to keep track. Therefore, the
>information will rot.
>
>I acknowledge that we have such kinds of data already - the opening 
>times,

And cuisine, smoking, diet, etc.

> for example, are also a business decision that can change any 
>time. I just think we shouldn't have more of that ;)


there are more than 20000 diet:vegan tags, 90 percent yes/only/limited.

It is my impression that we are able to keep track of these.
If you are a vegan and go to a vegan restaurant and discover that they
stopped serving vegan food, you are probably very motivated to fix the
tagging.

It is also my impression that restaurants that market themselves as
vegan or label dishes on menus as vegan, almost never just start serving
only meat-dishes. They may be replaced with another restaurant with
another name and different owner, but we often have ways to discover
that more or less automatically.


If I go to a bar and find out that they started allowing smoking, I
will tag that immediately.