[Talk-us-massachusetts] How to tag pile of sand/salt for use by residents

Peter Cooper Jr. pete-openstreetmap-massachusetts-list at cooperjr.name
Tue Oct 18 15:58:58 UTC 2022


Is there a way (or is just not valuable to) tag the pile of sand & salt 
that our town provides for residents to use during the winter? It seems 
a useful landmark and destination someone might want to know how to find 
(I know it took me a little bit to find), but it's just a big pile 
outside the old highway barn that someone can bring a shovel and a 
couple buckets to in order to get a sand/salt mix to use on walkways and 
such. (I assume other towns do similar things?)

The closest I can find in the wiki is amenity=grit_bin, but that seems 
to indicate a "bin" (from the description and pictures), and I don't 
think is really the same concept (though it might be how a similar 
problem is solved in other areas/countries?) Something like natural=sand 
seems like it's even further away from what I'm looking for.

Or in the absence of a specific tag, is just having a point with a name= 
of some sort the right way to do this?

Thanks.

-- 
Peter




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