Tag:street_vendor=yes
 street_vendor = yes
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Marks an object, for example a shop, as a street vendor and therefore with limited and no permanent presence. 
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The tag street_vendor=yes indicates that a shop, fast food outlet, or similar business, operates from a temporary facility (a stand, tent or car) as opposed to a permanent building (such as a building=kiosk). Only those street vendors that appear consistently at the same location should be mapped (as well as locations that always have street vendors offering the same products).
For example, a food truck appearing always on the same location on every day, or a greengrocer setting up tent on given opening hours with known schedule are verifiable and mappable.
Since such shops may disappear outside their opening hours, it is useful for other mappers to explicitly note this. It allows easier distinction between misplaced shops and genuine market street vendors, and gives additional info that such objects should not be deleted without survey during their opening hours. For example, survey of a marketplace during night is sufficient to confirm presence of paths or buildings, but is not sufficient to determine businesses operating as street vendors.
Definition
Street vendors are on the street (including pedestrianized streets, narrow street or footpaths). Either there are no solid barriers like walls that block access to given location or shops is regularly dismantled.
Street vendors may offer products or services. It includes for example food trucks that are not permanently staying in one place, products sold from cart, portable table, portable or partially dismantled stalls, tent, or by somebody holding products for sale.
Street vendors may sell any kind of product (see shop=* for examples) or service (ranging from shoe cleaning to surfing lessons).
Street vendors may appear outside, under roofs (sometimes special roof over marketplace area) or in public buildings like train stations. They do not have a dedicated permanent buildings.
Permanent shops, also ones inaccessible outside their opening hours (for example in a mall) or hard to recognize (as there is no sign visible outside opening hours) are not street vendors.
It also may be, in rare cases, useful for some data consumers.
Tagging
Add street_vendor=yes to mark object as a street vendor. Except very unlikely situations street_vendor=no is not useful, street_vendor=* must be always added to primary tag, it is never sufficient on its own.
Note that this tag is not changing what is considered OK to be mapped. Objects without specific location, for example street vendors changing their position each day or not staying at specific location are not mappable as shop=* as it is not possible to mark their location.
It may be also useful to apply it to amenity=marketplace with this characteristics (partially/mostly disappearing), especially in cases where individual sellers are not yet mapped or are not mappable at all.
Example
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2910306864 – a widely known food truck, operating since 1991 (see for example https://www.yelp.pl/biz/kie%C5%82baski-z-niebieskiej-nyski-krak%C3%B3w-3 )
- amenity=fast_food
- cuisine=sausage
- name=Kiełbaski z niebieskiej Nyski
- official_name=Kiełbaski z rożna pod Halą Targową
- opening_hours=Mo-Sa 20:00-03:00
- street_vendor=yes
- wheelchair=yes
During the day it is an empty spot on the sidewalk.
See also
- physically_present=no
- shop=farm – stand or shop selling farm produce: regional, seasonal, freshly harvested goods
- shop=street_vendor – less popular & deprecated tagging of street_vendor=yes - this tagging scheme blocks standard tagging of shop type