User:Fairer Falkirk
The Fairer Falkirk OSM Project
This page describes an OSM mapping project which will be used as part of Falkirk Council’s ‘Towards a Fairer Falkirk’ project. This project is concerned with reducing the inequalities between the wealthiest and poorest in the community. More details can be found here: http://www.falkirk.gov.uk/services/people-communities/poverty-strategy.aspx
What are we trying to map?
The mapping aspect of Fairer Falkirk project aims to map community services in a number of data themes. These themes relate to free local services that are available to the community.
We are intending to use as many existing tags as we can, and possible extending the project to use new tags if needed. We are trying to be as conservative as possible and introduce tags only when there is a defined data gap.
Digital Access Theme
This theme defines the features and community services that enable free digital access / connectivity access to the public. This may not necessarily be concerned with internet access, we also want to describe how the community can access a range of a range of activities – e.g. ability to print and access to computers.
For this theme, we are interested in the following:
Services of interest
Our theme is interested in the following services:
- Wi-Fi / Internet access
- Printing facilities
- Computer terminals provided
Feature attributes of interest
- Service restrictions
- Is membership required for access to services?
- Is the service free?
- Accessibility – Is there wheelchair / mobility access
Food Provision
This theme describes the food bank / soup kitchens and other community services that provide access to free food. We are initially concentrating on food banks but may in the future include other services, e.g. breakfast clubs and school holiday activities where meals are provided.
Community Help & Advice
Features that provide community advice / citizens advice.
Council Help & Advice
Council offices providing community help & advice.
Our Tagging Schemes
The summary of our tagging schemes are listed below:
Generic tags These tags are common across features in all the data themes.
| Feature Attributes | Tag | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Opening times | opening_hours | building opening times |
| Service times | service_times | Service opening times, this may vary from the building opening times |
| Website | website | |
| Email Address | ||
| Telephone number | phone | captured in international form +44 |
| Address | addr: | |
| addr:city | ||
| addr:housenumber | ||
| addr:postcode | ||
| addr:street | ||
| Name | name | |
| Accessibility | wheelchair=yes | |
| wheelchair=no | ||
| wheelchair=limited | ||
| wheelchair:description:en=* | Used by wheelmap project (www.wheelmap.org) to store extra notes |
Theme tags These are tags specific to a particular theme.
| Theme | Sub-theme | Tags | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Council help & Advice | office:government | type: services | amenity:advice_service | |
| Community help & Advice | Citizens advice | amenity:social_facility | type: citizens_advice | |
| Financial Support | amenity:social_facility | type: financial_services | ||
| Family Support | amenity:social_facility | type: advice_service | ||
| Mental Health Advice | amenity:social_facility | type: healthcare | healthcare:mental_health | |
| Child & Young People Advice / Family Support | amenity:social_facility | type:advice_service | ||
| Food Provision | Food bank | amenity:social_facility | social_facility:food_bank | |
| desc:en= | ||||
| Digital Access | Library & Community centres | amenity=library or amentity=community_centre | ||
| internet_access | ||||
| internet_access:fee | ||||
| digital_access | ||||
| digital_access:membership |
Tag / Data gaps
To capture the digital services for the digital access theme, a new OSM namespace was created - 'digital_access'. For more information see : See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:digital_access