Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

On 04/05/18 14:41, Steve Doerr wrote: On 04/05/2018 12:52, Lester Caine wrote: it's not helped when postoffice.co.uk don't list the independent post offices in there search results! According to them Broadway does not have a post office ;) It comes up for me at Russell Square, Back Lane,

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

On 04/05/2018 12:52, Lester Caine wrote: it's not helped when postoffice.co.uk don't list the independent post offices in there search results! According to them Broadway does not have a post office ;) It comes up for me at Russell Square, Back Lane, Broadway, Worcestershire, WR12 7AP. I

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

On Fri, 2018-05-04 at 12:52 +0100, Lester Caine wrote: > On 04/05/18 12:28, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > > Or do people think we should use amenity=post_office for them with > > some other tagging used to differentiate things? If we did want to > > use > > other tagging to differentiate,

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

On 04/05/18 12:28, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: Or do people think we should use amenity=post_office for them with some other tagging used to differentiate things? If we did want to use other tagging to differentiate, then operator=* wouldn't work, as most Post Office branches are run by

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

On 3 May 2018 at 11:25, SK53 wrote: > Can we please avoid changing the meaning of post office by extending it to > courier offices, and restrict it to those places which offer not only a full > service mail offering (aka Universal Postal Service), but the traditional > other

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

On 3 May 2018 at 18:57, David Woolley wrote: > On 03/05/18 17:53, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: >> >> I would use a node where the van stops, tagged with > amenity="post_office", name="Over Mobile Post Office Service", > > That seems to break the name is only the

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

On 03/05/18 17:53, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: I would use a node where the van stops, tagged with amenity="post_office", name="Over Mobile Post Office Service", That seems to break the name is only the name rule. ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

Are these additional services legally obliged, or are they offered as a result of a commercial agreement? Perhaps designation=uk_post_office may be a useful addition to indicate that the legally-obliged services are available at this location. Some services are only available at what used to be

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

On 3 May 2018 at 14:02, Andy G Wood wrote: > I know one of the unmapped post offices is still "open" in my village > http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/branch/110053 > however, it is basically a mobile van that turns up on the village green for > some hours a few days a

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

Hi Robert, > There's still a lot to do though. In particular, there are around 3800 > branches in the official list that are not currently mapped in OSM, > and around 1000 amenity=post_office objects that correspond to > branches that are probably now closed. How may of these can we survey > and

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

On 03/05/2018 11:25, SK53 wrote: Can we please avoid changing the meaning of post office by extending it to courier offices, and restrict it to those places which offer not only a full service mail offering (aka Universal Postal Service), but the traditional other services available at post

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

Can we please avoid changing the meaning of post office by extending it to courier offices, and restrict it to those places which offer not only a full service mail offering (aka Universal Postal Service), but the traditional other services available at post offices (some banking, government

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

I would avoid using amenity=post_office for anything other than a proper post office. The term post office is much more than a place to send parcels or letters. In the UK a post office offers Banking services I can tax my car I can apply for a passport I can collect my pension Exchange currency

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

At the risk of being pedantic, but would a "network" tag, similar to bus routes, not be more appropriate? Here in Sweden, the post office system is now Post Nord, network=Post Nord, but post offices are frequently inside and operated by supermarkets, e.g. operator=ICA. These outlets often

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

Hi Robert If an operator tag is added to post_office tags then your comparison tool would be OK Regards Brian On 3 May 2018 at 10:08, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) < robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2 May 2018 at 19:08, David Woolley wrote: > > On

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

On 2 May 2018 at 19:08, David Woolley wrote: > On 02/05/18 18:52, ael wrote: >> >> I am confused:-) How should a Royal mail local delivery office be >> tagged? It seems that it is not amenity=post_office. I notice that >> I have used post_depot once some time ago, but

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

On 02/05/18 18:52, ael wrote: I am confused:-) How should a Royal mail local delivery office be tagged? It seems that it is not amenity=post_office. I notice that I have used post_depot once some time ago, but that doesn't seem to be in the wiki (or in the presets for josm). Yet I am sure that

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 05:17:56PM +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > We're now one month in to the current Quarterly Project, which aims to > use some official Post Office Ltd. branch data released under the OGL > to help improve the mapping of Post Offices in OpenStreetMap. I am

[Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

We're now one month in to the current Quarterly Project, which aims to use some official Post Office Ltd. branch data released under the OGL to help improve the mapping of Post Offices in OpenStreetMap. As you can see from the graph at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/#history there has