[Talk-GB] UK Food Banks

[Jason Cartwright]

> Please can you explain what the difference between these two files is
> they seem to contain different data. Do we need two?

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2021-December/028311.html

> Randomly picking on Nuneaton, foodbanks.geojson appears to point to a
> residential address rather than a location likely to be a foodbank

Yes, that is the address they publish on their website (and also the
registered address of their charity)

> One issue with both files is that the locations are not the real
> locations, but postcode centoids.

Looks to be an unfortunate limitation of the OpenCage geocoder I was
asked to use to create data that can be displayed on maps other than
those from Google.

> Another issue I have come across is that in at least one case
> (Whitchurch, Shropshire) the postcode is plain wrong. That one only a
> appears in foodbanks and is absent from locations.

This is expected behaviour. The organisation exists, but has no
further locations.

> You cannot 'rock up', you need to be referred.

Yes, most of the time. There is a discussion on how to potentially tag
this on the wiki...

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:social_facility%3Dfood_bank

Jason