Another version of sort of a street-vendor that I was wondering about is
mobile food vans.

They drive into a site (building site, warehouse complex etc) at morning
tea time, blow their horn, stay for 15-20 minutes, then leave & come back
at lunch time.

Are they a street vendor?

Thanks

Graeme


On Tue, 8 Nov 2022 at 05:57, Volker Schmidt <vosc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just to make the list complete:
> Around here (or at least in my city and nearby towns) we have regular open
> air markets with assigned locations for specific stalls.
> Do we already have a mapping approach to that type of stalls? (I couldn't
> find one).
> If we really don't have one already, it might be worth looking at how to
> map stalls in general as I cudl see a lot of similarities.
> I do part of my shopping in such markets, and I go to specific stalls for
> specific goods.
>
> Il giorno lun 7 nov 2022 alle ore 17:03 Joseph Eisenberg <
> joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> I disagree with classing if all “street vendors” and one feature.
>>
>> This proposal seems to assume conditions in contemporary Europe, where
>> shops are usually located in permanent buildings due to climate conditions.
>>
>> In many subtropical and tropical regions the air temperature is never
>> cold, so a fully enclosed permanent building with walls and heating is not
>> very necessary.
>>
>> In this case many “street vendors” will have a tent and some storage
>> which stays at a certain place, but is closed up at night. In that regards
>> it is similar to a shop which is closed up with a metal gate at night,
>> making it poorly visible except during opening hours.
>>
>> But consider shop=kiosk - in North America these are often small stands
>> on a sidewalk of pedestrian street or mall, with one person wgo sells
>> newspapers, snacks etc to pedestrians, functioning quite like a common kind
>> of street vendor, except that they are in a tiny shed. Is it really better
>> to have a totally different way of tagging a similar business which instead
>> uses a mobile push-cart or a tricycle instead?
>>
>> In Southeast Asia, many of the businesses that Westerners might call
>> street vendors sell newly cooked food, thus they are more like
>> amenity=fast_food - and often an enclosed eatery will have only the kitchen
>> indoors, with customers eating outside under a canopy.
>>
>> Even here in Oregon, in the United States, we have small restaurants
>> which are ambiguous under this proposal: they are “food carts” because they
>> are small kitchens in trailers with wheels, which can be moved by attaching
>> them to a truck. But usually they are semi-permanently installed on rented
>> private land, with the landowner providing hook-ups for electricity and
>> water, and usually covered seating with a canopy and picnic tables. So
>> while they look similar to at more mobile “food truck” (which has its own
>> engine and drivers seat, and thus can be moved every day) they are more
>> permanent.
>>
>> Rather than approving this proposal I would recommend more use of
>> property tags. The existing street_vendor=yes tag is probably best, but
>> building=no is also common (10k uses) and makes it clear that a feature is
>> not a building.
>> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/building=no
>>
>> - Joseph Eisenberg
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 9:31 PM map...@t-online.de <map...@t-online.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I propose to deprecate street_vendor=* and to tag mappable street
>>> vendors with amenity=street_vendor + vending=* + opening_hours=* instead.
>>>
>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Street_vendors
>>>
>>> Please discuss this proposal on its Wiki Talk page.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Freetz
>>>
>>>
>>>
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