On 5/12/2019 8:19 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 19:28, Tony Shield <tony.shield...@gmail.com <mailto:tony.shield...@gmail.com>> wrote:Like the idea. delivery_contact might be better. I prefer delivery over contact Maybe (using our local companies as an eg) delivery:ubereats="url" delivery:menulog="url" delivery:deliveroo="url" with "url" in each case being that delivery companies online menu for that restaurant?
I'm reluctant to recommend the OSM database as the best place to collect links to the individual restaurant pages of various delivery services. I prefer this "delivery:partner=*" recommendation on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:delivery . The value could be semicoloned, eg delivery:partner=deliveroo;menulog;ubereats. And if delivery:*=* is adopted, I'd recommend to start with delivery:*=yes and make the url optional. (=yes might ultimately be a better idea... any app who wanted to link to the delivery services could forward the restaurant name and address to the service's search url, and we wouldn't have the duty of maintaining the individual restaurant links for each service. It means the links wouldn't be available directly from https://openstreetmap.org, but I'm fine with that.) One weakness of both of these schemes is that there's no obvious way to indicate that the restaurant also does deliveries itself -- which many of them do, and prefer to do, since they don't have to give a cut to a dot-com middle man. On principal I'm not a fan of giving airtime to these delivery services because of their predatory behavior -- listing restaurants without their consent, and squatting on restaurantname.com websites to steer traffic to their service. I've complained about these guys in the talk-us list; I'm not sure if their behavior worldwide is as sleazy as it is here in NYC but I wouldn't doubt it. If these proposed tags are used I would strongly recommend that they be based only on physically (or photographically) verifiable signage, not just on the fact that a restaurant can be found in the online database of a given service -- which might be entirely involuntary, and therefore not, in fact, a verifiable property of the restaurant itself. Jason
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