[OSM-talk-be] oxfam wereldwinkels

[Marc Gemis]

I mapped some them as charity, because I couldn't find a better tag.
Feel free to retag to whatever you think is more appropriate.

Please update the wiki page
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:NL:BelgianChainStores:O
accordingly

regards

m

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:08 PM, joost schouppe
<joost.schouppe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was looking at fair trade stores recently. I've always considered Oxfam
> Wereldwinkel (don't know what they're called in French, it's the Oxfam shops
> with fair trade products from around the world) to be something like a
> convenience store (a kruidenier, a small supermarktet), with just fair trade
> shops. Much like a bio-shop is a convenience store with organic stuff.
>
> So in that logic you would have:
> shop=convenience + respectively fair_trade=only or organic=only .
>
> In the case of organic shops, the case seems closed, but I saw a lot of
> Oxfam shops tagged as shop=charity. While Oxfam does have charity shops
> (where they sell second hand books or clothes), I don't think their
> Wereldwinkels are within the scope of that definition.
>
> How do you feel about this?
>
> (I'm in the proces of building a little mapcontrib app [1] to add fair_trade
> tags to places like this, but wanted to know your opinion on these shops
> first. Most of these shops are in the U.K. but I wanted to ask here first,
> as here I know these places myself; I don't know what they look like in the
> UK)
>
>
> 1: https://www.mapcontrib.xyz/t/7865e7-Fair_trade_shops
>
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