[Talk-GB] UK Food Banks

[Mark Goodge]

On 30/01/2022 13:01, Philip Barnes wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 18:40 +0000, Jason Cartwright via Talk-GB wrote:

>> https://github.com/givefood/data/blob/main/foodbanks.geojson
>> https://github.com/givefood/data/blob/main/locations.geojson
>>
>> Happy to tweak this further if needed. Interested to see what you all
>> do with it!
>>
> Please can you explain what the difference between these two files is
> they seem to contain different data. Do we need two?

Looking at my town, one of them contains one food bank and the other 
contains a different one.

> Randomly picking on Nuneaton, foodbanks.geojson appears to point to a
> residential address rather than a location likely to be a foodbank,
> locations.geojson does seem rather more sane and provides some guidance
> for a survey or find the location already mapped in OSM. Many are
> churches so we do have pretty good coverage.

I suspect that in some cases, it may be listing the contact address 
rather than the physical address.
> Should we be ensuring the venues are mapped so that once referred they
> can be found. This improves the map beyond a single usecase. Such place
> will often host other events where people need to find them.

I agree. Any venue used as a foodbank is also likely to be used for 
something else as well (eg, a church hall, community centre). So we 
should be mapping the venue under its primary use, but possibly also 
tagging it as a foodbank if appropriate. But if the venue isn't mapped 
or tagged at all, then this is a good opportunity to do some research 
(either on the ground or by looking at the organisation's website) and 
making sure that it is properly mapped.

Mark