A waste transfer station is a different operation from this one, which is a place to store used parts for the long-term until someone buys them. The things stored therein are not waste but resellable parts. If I want a tail-light lens for a 1975 Ford, for example, the best place, often the only place, to get it would be at a junkyard/scrapyard.
Thanks for the input. I've got some good ideas now. I now agree that adding the tags for shop=car_parts and second_hand=only would help describe this particular type of scrapyard quite nicely. Cheers, Dave <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21/01/2016 4:31 AM, Andy Townsend wrote: > > On 20/01/2016 17:19, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > > On 20 January 2016 at 02:03, Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> I'm trying to decide how to tag what we in the U.S. refer to as junkyards. >> > > ... >> >> Would amenity=waste_transfer_station be an option? See > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dwaste_transfer_station > . Perhaps this makes more sense for scrapyards that make most of their > money from selling the iron used in cars. > > > I'd have thought that a "waste transfer station" was something else? > Scrapyards round here tend to major not so much in selling iron but in car > parts (though obviously that'll vary with commodity prices and local > area). I think I've seen at least one "waste transfer station" somewhere > in the county though what that's tagged as I wouldn't like to say. It > didn't look very scrapyardish (though I can see how there might be overlap > of edge cases). > > > I too think of a 'waste transfer station' as something else. They don't > store stuff for long - moving it on fairly quickly. Say less than a week. > > A 'junkard' would usually have things stored for quite some time. Save > over a year. They sell the individual parts to people who want those parts > for use rather than scrapping them. What ever parts that are not wanted .. > those go to the recyclers. > > -------------------- > A 'junkard' can be for cars, trucks, motorcycles, earth movers, aeroplanes > ... I think that needs to be specified. > > They go by various names depending on where you are .. 'boneyeard', > 'wreckers' ... > > for example I'd tag them; > landuse=industrial > industrial=car_wreckers > shop=car_parts > car_parts:secondhand=ford;gmc > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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