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

[Greg Troxel]

"Peter Cooper Jr. via Talk-us-massachusetts"
<talk-us-massachusetts at openstreetmap.org> writes:

> 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?)

I think your town's pile is very close to amenity=grit_bin.  It's the
same concept, just a pile not a bin.  Same stuff, same purpose, same
model.

> Something like natural=sand seems like it's even further away from
> what I'm looking for.

It's not natural, and taking random ground is usually not ok.  I don't
think this fits.

> 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?

name doesn't make sense, unless it's the John Doe Memorial Sand Pile.
name='sand pile' definitely not.


So overall I would say:

  the people who created amenity=grit_bin erred and should have used
  words that imply "grit for people to take for winter" and deemphasized
  bin

  given that, this should change to amenity=grit_supply and
  grit_supply_type=bin for them, and =pile for you

  given that retagging doesn't happen, I would use
    amenity=grit_bin
    grit_bin=pile
  and then renders will show it as bin, which is useful for people
  searching, and there's the nuance if anybody wants to deal.
  
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