Re: [Talk-GB] Amazon pickup lockers - how to represent (if at all)?

2020-02-13 Thread Dan Glover
Sorry for the long-delayed follow-up. On 2020-01-01 12:43, Philip Barnes wrote: They are certainly not post boxes, I have used amenity=vending_machine, vending=parcel_pickup which is a combination that probably came from asking on #osm. For example my local one https://www.openstreetmap.org/node

Re: [Talk-GB] Amazon pickup lockers - how to represent (if at all)?

2020-01-01 Thread Andy Townsend
On 01/01/2020 12:49, Martin Wynne wrote: See also man_made=street_cabinet. The wiki page invites us to add additional usage tags: True, but it's not really a good idea to "expand" the meaning of a key that's already in use too far - it just makes it harder to identify the (in this case) "or

Re: [Talk-GB] Amazon pickup lockers - how to represent (if at all)?

2020-01-01 Thread Philip Barnes
I had mapped, but forgotten to add the operator to the Inpost locker at Morrisions. The only thing I have ever collected from Inpost are my two interrail passes for SOTM Milan and SOTM Heidelberg. Maybe a Morrions without such lockers mapped is a survey opportunity? Phil (trigpoint) On Wed, 20

Re: [Talk-GB] Amazon pickup lockers - how to represent (if at all)?

2020-01-01 Thread Tony OSM
Hi My local Morrisons supermarket has 2 sets, I have tagged amenity=vending_machine operator=InPost (2nd one has Amazon) vending=parcel_pickup;parcel_mail_inĀ  (these machines often receive parcels as well as deliver them) location=indoor|outdoor could useful - i've just added this while wri

Re: [Talk-GB] Amazon pickup lockers - how to represent (if at all)?

2020-01-01 Thread Gregory Marler
Remember that features in OpenStreetMap are not only useful for finding those features. If you know a region has the pickup lockers all mapped, you could do analysis such as density of their locations (do they favour more expensive neighbourhoods, or how accessible are they by traffic-free cycle r

Re: [Talk-GB] Amazon pickup lockers - how to represent (if at all)?

2020-01-01 Thread Martin Wynne
Hi Dan, See also man_made=street_cabinet. The wiki page invites us to add additional usage tags: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dstreet_cabinet perhaps street_cabinet=pickup_locker cheers, Martin. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-

Re: [Talk-GB] Amazon pickup lockers - how to represent (if at all)?

2020-01-01 Thread Philip Barnes
They are certainly not post boxes, I have used amenity=vending_machine, vending=parcel_pickup which is a combination that probably came from asking on #osm. For example my local one https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5978482863 https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Pna indicates the taging has a fair amou

[Talk-GB] Amazon pickup lockers - how to represent (if at all)?

2020-01-01 Thread Dan Glover
Please forgive me if this is has been debated previously - I'm new here and having trouble finding a searchable archive for this list. A local mapper has added an Amazon "Hub Locker", tagged as amenity=post_box. This causes it to flag as an anomaly when comparing against Royal Mail data. My