[Talk-GB] Electric kick scooters- Was: External data on bike rental locations

[David Groom]

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From: "Steven Hirschorn" <steven.hirschorn at gmail.com>
To: "Edward Catmur" <ecatmur at googlemail.com>
Cc: "David Groom" <reviews at pacific-rim.net>; "talk-gb at openstreetmap.org" 
<talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: 13/09/2021 16:44:54
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Electric kick scooters- Was: External data on 
bike rental locations

>>
>>Wiki has "amenity=kick-scooter_rental" (note mixed punctuation): 
>>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dkick-scooter_rental
>
>That's a really horrible mix of hyphens and underscores to create a 
>long term that isn't very commonly used in the UK (at least).  And 
>there's only 114 of them.
Not sure that tag went through any RFC as a proposal, and if the tag in 
some form was to be used I would have thought it better to have been 
"amenity=kickscooter_rental" to avoid possible tagging mistakes with 
people mixing hyphens and underscores

>
>I thought eBike and eScooter were well used terms. There's nothing to 
>map for ebike_rentals though as there are no preferred locations that 
>I'm aware of. When Mobike existed locally, renting pushbikes, they 
>theoretically had preferred locations, but you could (and most people 
>did) leave them anywhere! They depend on an app to find the 
>scooters/bikes so a designated return point isn't needed unless an 
>authority requires it.
Whilst eBike and eScooter may be well used terms, the question then 
becomes is it important in OSM to be able to differentiate between 
something you sit on, and something you stand on?  I would have thought 
that it is.

>
>
>>nb. "unlike the dockless bikes and ebikes" - in the City at least, 
>>dockless schemes are required to use designated return locations. I'm 
>>aware it's a bit sui generis, but I'd expect other LAs to have at 
>>least an aspiration to the same policy?
>
>Only for eScooters. The eBikes are still left wherever people end their 
>journeys, though the rental companies have introduced a "snap a photo 
>of your parking" to determine if people are parking them antisocially!
>
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