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Especially in universities it might be interesting to tag indoor printers accessible to students. How can this be done? |
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It looks like a node tagged You may consider including other tags commonly found on indoor features, such as Unfortunately "public printer" doesn't distinguish between the two possible cases (and yes, this is the problem with trying to map everything in the "amenity" space!).
(26 Dec '17, 13:34)
SomeoneElse ♦
Hm, there do indeed seem to be a considerable number of printer's shops tagged as
(26 Dec '17, 16:07)
Tordanik
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If it is in a Uni building create a node with Tag:amenity=printer .Public Libraries usually have some printing facilities as well so i guess you could do a node for them as well. They may get rendered this one does, it's a business that i have found http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2704917063#map=19/52.07690/4.35368 Thank you for your suggestion. I guess I'll use amenity=printer. In the OSM Wiki there's only a shop=copyshop (like in your link) documentation but nothing mentioned about stand-alone printers or printing service included in other kind of shops and facilities.
(26 Dec '17, 11:52)
nw520
"amenity=printer" is used in OSM for something else, so it's not a good choice. See https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/482115055 for an example. A "printer" or "printer's" is somewhere that you go (a shop or office) to get something printed. Example taginfo search: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=printer , https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/u1u in overpass.
(26 Dec '17, 11:58)
SomeoneElse ♦
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Hi nw520, since a printer is an movable object, it is like a moving bench in a park, dont tag it locally. Or ad public=printer to the building itself just to make clear there is one available. 4
Printers are theoretically movable, but that should not preclude mapping them unless they're actually being moved regularly. A lot of the things we map – including traffic signs – could be moved within a couple minutes, but in practice they stick around for years or decades. The same is true for many public printers at universities.
(25 Dec '17, 12:54)
Tordanik
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Are you suggesting that a printer could be trackable, and plotted on OSM? a bit like the police could track a stolen car? I think osm would take a too long to re-render although looking at the data might work. an interesting way see who has the printer, but it would require users doing the logging at the time, every time.
Well, no, actually not. I'm talking about those big office printers like for example this one. Those haven't been moved in years, often even have card readers attached to the wall (making it difficult to move them) and there's even a list of printers provided by the university. I'm just talking about a regular amenity, just like a photo booth or whatsoever.