[Talk-GB] UK Food Banks

[Jason Cartwright]

> what is the difference between a site from foodbanks.geojson and a site from locations.geojson?

Sorry for the slow reply here. foodbanks.geojson contains the food
bank organisations and locations.geojson contains the organisations
outlet locations.

I've just added foodbank, foodbank_slug and foodbank_url to the
locations.geojson point features to help marry the two up.

> Is the former [foodbanks.geojson] a place where you take donations as well as receive, and the latter [locations.geojson] somewhere you may only receive

Very generally this is probably true, but varies enormously.

Kind regards,
Jason


On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 at 15:34, Jez Nicholson <jez.nicholson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A quick question for Jason: what is the difference between a site from foodbanks.geojson and a site from locations.geojson? Is the former a place where you take donations as well as receive, and the latter somewhere you may only receive [sorry, if this isn't the appropriate terminology]?
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 3:17 PM Brian Prangle <bprangle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jason
>>
>> I've manually added all your foodbank data, as it's public domain now according to github, for the West Midlands (i.e Birmingham,Solihull,Coventry, Dudley,Walsall, Wolverhampton). I've parsed address data into osm format, added source=give_food and removed the slug field. I've placed nodes on the correct building and corrected typos and addresses where necessary so you might want to update your data.  Where I know the operator for network=independent I've added that. I'll slowly radiate out into adjacent counties. Thanks for your efforts:I hope others can use this data soon too. Any dissent from my tagging by fellow osmers I'll amend as necessary if a different consensus emerges.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 11:31, Jason Cartwright via Talk-GB <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> A polite bump on this! I believe now we have the data appropriately
>>> licensed for inclusion?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Jason
>>>
>>> On Fri, 3 Dec 2021 at 09:15, Jason Cartwright <jason at givefood.org.uk> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > So, 2nd question for Jason: are the slug values stable...i.e. more-or-less guaranteed not to change? I would assume yes, but good to ask.
>>> >
>>> > They are stable. Very, very occasionally a food bank will change their
>>> > name and the slug will change too though. I think this has happened
>>> > three times in two years. Not sure if this is a problem?
>>> >
>>> > > Also, i've asked a question on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:social_facility%3Dfood_bank about access tagging. How do we tag that customers need to be referred?
>>> >
>>> > This is a good point. Almost all food banks require referral,
>>> > something that's not widely understood - so this tagging could save a
>>> > lot of faff. Good call Jez.
>>> >
>>> > Jason
>>>
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