Hi, from discussions on talk-it and talk-de there raised some issues with recycling and waste. Initial reason was the tagging of collection points for old pharmacies.
Until recently amenity=waste_disposal was defined as a place "where canal boaters, caravaners etc. can dispose of rubbish (trash/waste). Stuff you put in black sacks." (as a side note I am not sure why the sacks must be black, I guess this is country specific, and you would also tag places for rubbish that you put in blue sacks the same way). Some months ago this definition was extended to "amenity=waste_disposal used with the value waste=trash is also used to mark collecting point of trash (theses black sacks...) in village / urban area." (not sure if this means that rural areas outside settlements are excluded and what would be the reason for this). There is also mention of amenity=waste_basket (it is not said explicitly but I guess the difference is the size and usually you are not allowed to put any trash "in sacks" into the waste baskets). http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dwaste_disposal Further on there is a list of examples for the key "waste" to use in combination: * trash - (for trash/rubbish) * excrement - (for excrement evacuation systems for boats) * oil - (for motoroil, diesel and emulsions) * chemical toilet - (for chemical toilets) * grey water - (for soapy water, like from showers and dish washing) I don't know you, but I would actually put almost nothing of these in black sacks ;-) Now compare this to amenity=recycling: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Drecycling Where the classification goes recycling_type=container/centre and recycling:aluminium=yes/no recycling:paper=yes/no etc. My suggestion is to completely rework the waste part in a similar way: waste:trash=yes/no (unspecific) waste:grey_water=yes/no waste:chemical_toilet=yes/no waste:drugs=yes/no (for medicines) etc. not sure for oil, as this appears to be a recycling-value as well (actually there is recycling:cooking_oil and recycling:engine_oil so it would be engine_oil for the oil intended currently with waste=oil). Thing is: if the oil is recycled it would be better tagged with recycling:engine_oil this would be compatible with the current scheme for waste (as it doesn't use keys that are already taken) and the transition could be fluid. There could also be an extension to have subtags for the kind of amenity=waste_disposal like disposal_type=container/centre/basket (or bin) but I am not sure if the basket-part is needed or better kept separately. How would this be tagged then? http://www.rosmarinonews.it/os/data/articles/image/copy1/3798_5580.jpg (It is a collection point for pharmaceuticals). Dependent on the answers to the questions above it would be either: amenity=waste_disposal disposal_type=basket (or is bin better? Or is this a "container"?) waste:drugs=yes or it would be: amenity=waste_basket (again, this is not really a basket) waste:drugs=yes Comments? cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
