On 6 Dec 2010, at 20:51, Craig Wallace wrote: > Or another idea would be to tag them with something like "operator:type" or > similar. eg: > > shop=books > operator=Oxfam > operator:type=charity
I like this. > This could be expanded for a wide variety of other operator types - there are > many organisations that provide "worthwhile" services, but are > not registered charities. > eg you could tag as operator:type=social_enterprise or > operator:type=workers_cooperative or operator:type=government etc. Sounds like it would work well. I would like to have tagged a couple of cooperatives as such last week, but didn't bother. > Also, I'm not sure about just tagging generic charity shops as > shop=second_hand. They may mostly sell second hand goods, but they often > have a range of new things as well, eg food or craft stuff. > I think shop=second_hand is more for a place like Cash Converters etc, > charity shops are a quite distinct thing from that. Although it's perhaps a cliché, many thousands of charity shops do indeed sell, principally, second-hand, donated goods of a variety of types: clothes, toys, jewellery, cameras, books. I think that 'second_hand' value makes sense. For those shops that prominently sell new gifts, chocolate and cards, well - we have the semicolon... - L _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
