[Tagging] amentiy=donation_centre?

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 11:26 2022-11-12, Timothy Noname đã viết:
> I think people already use
> Amenity=recycling
> Recycling_type=container or centre
> And then specify whether it takes clothes and shoes etc
> Recycling:clothes=yes

Long ago, I helped to promote this overloading of amenity=recycling in 
the U.S. At the time, I was thinking of organizations like USAgain or 
Planet Aid that only operate donation bins stationed in parking lots. 
[1] It seemed like an apt analogy: you "recycle" clothes by placing it 
in one of these bins. (Read those quote marks with a hint of irony.) 
recycling=clothes;shoes seemed adequate for expressing any difference 
from, say, a plastic bottle recycling bin.

However, over time, I've come to second-guess this analogy. For one 
thing, there's a fundamental difference between a recycling bin that 
would divert its contents to an industrial recycling facility and a 
clothes donation bin that would divert its contents to a second-hand 
store or homeless shelter, even if some percentage does wind up in the 
same landfill. Underscoring this difference, in the U.S., you get an 
income tax deduction for donating goods, but not for recycling the same 
goods. So someone searching for one really isn't searching for the other.

Making matters worse, it was only a matter of time before we had to 
stretch this analogy further to cover the exact same kind of donation 
bins that chains like The Salvation Army and Goodwill operate alongside 
their brick-and-mortar second-hand stores. And even further for the 
donation-only centers they also run out of converted storefronts, a far 
cry from conventional recycling centers. [2] I've mapped one that only 
takes donated cars [3], but recycling_type=centre recycling:cars=yes 
feels like a very counterintuitive way to describe a car donation 
center. To me, "recycling center for cars" sounds like a euphemism for a 
junkyard.

In hindsight, I probably should've promoted something like 
amenity=donation that could apply to both bins and centers, just like 
amenity=recycling.

[1] 
https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/commit/19ca12fa9bfe4c017681dc0bf7baf4919d1ecbb1
[2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/71501049
[3] https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/42425057

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