Hi Joseph In British English the phrase has the same meaning as you describe.
The most common usage is in taxation terms when an employee receives a benefit that is not money. Examples can be a cars, housing. My reaction to this proposal was the same as yours, they are describing a charity shop. Phil (trigpoint) On Tuesday, 18 February 2020, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > While "in-kind donation" is an English phrase, it is not commonly used > and it also includes donations of services, rather than just goods. > > See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_kind "in kind refers to goods, > services, and transactions not involving money or not measured in > monetary terms." > > "In Kind: consisting of something (such as goods or commodities) other > than money" (Merriam-Webster) - also says "first known usage 1973". > > "In Kind: (of payment) given in the form of goods or services and not > money" or "If you do something in kind, you do the same thing to > someone that they have just done to you." (Cambridge) > > This might be difficult for mappers to understand, unless this phrase > is more common in British English than it appears (I'm an American > English speaker). > > I believe this proposal is focused on donations of things: physical > objects which have some value, also known as "goods," "items", > "stuff", "things", like those that you can commonly give away at a > second_hand shop or charity shop. > > If that is the case, a better tag might be something like > "goods_donation=", "second_hand_donation=", > "donation=second_hand_goods" or something with one of those other > common words for objects. > > But perhaps the key should include the type of things, since mostly > people will say "donate used clothes", "donate used books" or "donate > used furniture" rather than talking about all possible objects: > internet searches for those specific phrases find more results. > > - Joseph Eisenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Sent from my Sailfish device _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
