[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Cash acceptance at PoS

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Also, the ruling might differ from country to country. Here in Belgium,
cash is a legitimate method of pay in shops BUT vending machines for
example can be card only. So there's nuances everywhere.
And let's be honest: tourists don't do enough research before their trip.
If they can see it on something osm based, they'll know for certain.

Cheers,
Thibault

On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 at 12:15, Thibault Molleman <thibaultmolleman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think for something like this it's justified though.
> "acceptance of cash is the default ASSUMPTION"
> if the shop has no tags, it's unknown.
> if it has the tag payment:cash=yes then you're certain.
> if it has the tag payment:cash=no then you're also certain.
>
> If something isn't tagged, openstreetmap can't know.
>
> Why would tagging that be a bad thing?
>
> This is different from not tagging a city name on every house in that
> city, because there the relation of the city can be used to determine it,
> software wise.
>
> cheers,
> Thibault
>
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 at 11:57, Frederik Ramm - frederik at remote.org <
> qygoefidlhmfkyqmhyllhlltnzfmaalakfukjfxphopxl at simplelogin.co> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> please note that in many regions the acceptance of cash is the default
>> assumption. I would be VERY unhappy if "members of the cash community"
>> started to tag every shop in my country with "payment:cash=yes" just for
>> the shop to appear on someone's "cash accepted here" page, and I would
>> likely revert such an edit if I found it to be an organised effort.
>>
>> On the other hand of course it makes sense to tag those shops that
>> deviate from the national default and reject cash payments with
>> "payment:cash=no".
>>
>> I welcome your interest in this matter (as I myself am wary of the
>> decline of cash as a privacy-friendly payment method) but please do not
>> make the same mistake that other enthusiasts sometimes make and build a
>> simple website that then (because instead of working with sensible
>> standard assumptions) claims that hundreds of thousands of shops in the
>> country don't accept cash just because they don't have a payment:cash=yes.
>>
>> Bye
>> Frederik
>>
>> --
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