Proposal:Opening hours: standard appointment syntax
| Opening hours: standard appointment syntax | |
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| Proposal status: | Draft (under way) |
| Proposed by: | M!dgard |
| Tagging: | opening_hours=appointment |
| Applies to: |    
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| Definition: | syntax element appointment for opening_hours, similar to open and off
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| Statistics: |
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| Draft started: | 2019-05-27 |
| RFC start: | 2019-09-08 |
Proposal
Modify opening_hours=* to define appointment meaning "appointment necessary".
The formal specification can be updated by adding this rule: <rule_modifier> → appointment [ <space> <comment> ] → appointment
Rationale
Businesses working with appointments are very common. Currently this has to be expressed with comments. In taginfo we can see nach Vereinbarung, on call, by appointment and on appointment are commonly in use. appointment was chosen instead of by_appointment or on_appointment because the author of this proposal always forgets which one is the more common expression.
Standardizing this will make it possible for software to take this information into account and e.g. show it in different locales.
Alternative
An alternative (not a part of this proposal) would be to introduce something like reservation:hours=* to express reservation=* values that depend on time. This was brought up on the talk page.
Examples
| opening_hours=appointment | only ever open on appointment |
| opening_hours=Mo-Fr appointment | open only on appointment, appointments only possible on weekdays (without further specification about when the business would accept appointments) |
| opening_hours=Mo-Fr 09:00-17:00 appointment | open only on appointment, appointments only possible between 9 and 5 on weekdays |
| opening_hours=Mo-Th 09:00-17:00; Fr appointment | Mo-Th open from 9 to 5, appointment necessary on Friday |
| opening_hours=Mo-Th 09:00-17:00; Fr 09:00-17:00 appointment | Mo-Th open from 9 to 5, appointment necessary on Friday and only possible between 9 and 5 |
| opening_hours=Mo-Fr 09:00-12:00 || Mo-Fr 13:00-17:00 appointment | open without appointment in the morning, appointment necessary in the afternoon |
| opening_hours=Mo-Fr 09:00-12:00,14:00-17:00 || 12:00-14:00 appointment | open 9 to 5 but appointments are required between noon and 2 |