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

[Lester Caine]

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, Broadway, 
Worcestershire, WR12 7AP. I searched on that postcode. Or is there 
another Broadway?


OK is google that gets it wrong ;) 
https://www.google.com/search?q=post+office+near+me only shows the post 
office owned ones. But the information on the branch search - when you 
find it (needs the worcs) - is at odds with the times on the Budgen's 
website which I know are correct but the magic time one needs to know is 
5:15 as the latest time for collection today is not shown anywhere :) 
Only https://www.warnersbudgens.co.uk/post-offices/broadway.php shows 
the out of hours services ...


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

[Steve Doerr]

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 searched on that postcode. Or is there 
another Broadway?


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

[Philip Withnall]

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, then operator=* wouldn't work, as
> > most
> > Post Office branches are run by third parties. network=* or brand=*
> > could do, but it would be complicated to use either on objects
> > which
> > are tagged with both amenity=post_office and e.g. shop=convenience,
> > since we wouldn't know which part the tags were referring to.
> 
> Our local post office is now situated in a local supermarket while
> the 
> main postbox is still located outside it's previous home. Post
> Office 
> hours are shorter than the opening for the shop although some
> services 
> are available full time which adds to the fun tagging it. In
> addition 
> two other local shops are drop-off points for other other carriers
> with 
> one also a collection point for held deliveries. The published
> details 
> for some of these service points is already wrong but trying to add
> a 
> comprehensive set of tags covering everything is I think wishfull 
> thinking? Especially when the shop handles several courier services? 
> This is an area where secondary databases should be linked to
> provide 
> the fine detail and just a generic tag with an ID to access that
> data. 
> Trying to map all the secondary data is silly, but 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 ;)

In these situations I’d probably add a separate amenity=post_office
node *inside* the shop area. Then both the shop and the post office can
have separate tagging for their opening hours, operator, network, etc.

Philip

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

[Lester Caine]

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 third parties. network=* or brand=*
could do, but it would be complicated to use either on objects which
are tagged with both amenity=post_office and e.g. shop=convenience,
since we wouldn't know which part the tags were referring to.


Our local post office is now situated in a local supermarket while the 
main postbox is still located outside it's previous home. Post Office 
hours are shorter than the opening for the shop although some services 
are available full time which adds to the fun tagging it. In addition 
two other local shops are drop-off points for other other carriers with 
one also a collection point for held deliveries. The published details 
for some of these service points is already wrong but trying to add a 
comprehensive set of tags covering everything is I think wishfull 
thinking? Especially when the shop handles several courier services? 
This is an area where secondary databases should be linked to provide 
the fine detail and just a generic tag with an ID to access that data. 
Trying to map all the secondary data is silly, but 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 ;)


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

[Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)]

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 services available at post offices (some banking, government forms,
> etc). Extending the meaning of the tag would make OSM data immediately
> intrinsically less useful in cities where courier offices exist. Such a
> change would a) require every post office to be suitably tagged with an
> indication of which service it belongs to; and b) require every data
> consumer to change.

I agree that this would make sense for the UK, but I'm worried it
might be seen as re-defining the amenity=post_office tag as it's used
internationally. The wiki page at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dpost_office
currently defines it as "A post office. A place where letters and
parcels may be sent or collected." Arguably public offices of courier
companies fit this definition. In the UK though "Post Office" has a
specific meaning, and it would certainly make life easier for the UK
to tag these courier firms differently.

There are a handful of instances of each of amenity=courier,
shop=courier and office=courier, without any one having a significant
majority: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=courier#values .
Does anyone else have any ideas or preferences for possible taggings
for non-Post-Office-Ltd courier firms, if we were to go down that
route?

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 third parties. network=* or brand=*
could do, but it would be complicated to use either on objects which
are tagged with both amenity=post_office and e.g. shop=convenience,
since we wouldn't know which part the tags were referring to.

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

[Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)]

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 name rule.

The official name of the branch according to Post Office Ltd. is "Over
Mobile Service". But none of their branch names include the text "Post
Office"; most are just the place or street name, so it seems
reasonable to me to add "Post Office" to form the full name.

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

[David Woolley]

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.

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

[Colin Smale]

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 called "Crown Post
Offices", so designation=uk_crown_post_office could be used here. 

The other stuff, like currency exchange, is almost certainly a
commercial agreement, with no obligation on a particular post office to
offer this service. In this case I would add currency_exchange=yes for
example, so one can see where it is, and is not, available. 

This would separate the legally required functions (including buying a
stamp etc) from the "options". 

Colin

On 2018-05-03 12:14, Philip Barnes wrote:

> 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 
> Probably lots of other things that I've not thought of. 
> 
> Whilst post depot is useful for collecting things that an individual has 
> ordered, sending stuff by courier is a business service. DHL will not be 
> interested in sending my Christmas cards and certainly not for the price 
> Royal mail charges. 
> 
> Phil (trigpoint) 
> 
> On 3 May 2018 10:45:57 BST, Michael Collinson  wrote: 
> 
> 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 handle DHL and other services that might 
> also be considered as postal networks, network=Post Nord;DHL 
> 
> Mike 
> On 2018-05-03 11:15, Brian Prangle wrote: 
> 
> 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) 
>  wrote:
> 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 that doesn't seem to be
>>> in the wiki (or in the presets for josm). Yet I am sure that I got it
>>> from somewhere. Not that it seems very natural.
>> 
>> I'm fairly sure this came up a couple of months ago and the answer was
>> amenity=post_depot; operator=Royal Mail.  It's not, in principle, different
>> from Hermes or TNT.
> 
> That's certainly what I'd use. I think there's a good case for tagging
> customer-facing shop-like outlets of courier firms as
> amenity=post_office since they're places from which you can send
> stuff. But for the large warehouse-style sorting/distribution centres
> I think something else is needed. amenity=post_depot seems a good
> choice to me. It has over 400 uses worldwide, of which over 300 are in
> the UK.
> 
> The legitimate use of amenity=post_office for non-Post Office Ltd
> branches creates a slight issue for my comparison tool. I've got some
> heuristics to account for some sets of objects based on name,
> operator, and brand tagging. See:
> http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/osm-unmatched.html#non-pol [1]
> 
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Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

[Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)]

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 week.  How can this be mapped?

I would use a node where the van stops, tagged with
amenity="post_office", name="Over Mobile Post Office Service",
ref:pol_id="110053" and opening_hours="Mo,Th,Fr 09:30-12:30; We
09:30-11:00" (assuming they're correct). The name tag should give map
users a clue that it may not be open all the time during normal
working hours, and the opening_hours tag will let data users who look
know exactly when they'll find a Post Office there.

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

[Andy G Wood]

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 fix in the next two months?

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 week.  How can this be mapped?

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

[Mark Goodge]

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 offices (some banking, 
government forms, etc). Extending the meaning of the tag would make OSM 
data immediately intrinsically less useful in cities where courier 
offices exist. Such a change would a) require every post office to be 
suitably tagged with an indication of which service it belongs to; and 
b) require every data consumer to change.


I agree. "Post Office" has a specific legal meaning in the UK, and 
applying the tag to things that are not actually Post Offices would be 
confusing at the very least.


I think it would be helpful to have a suitable tag for things like 
Amazon lockers and Hermes drop-off points. But they're not Post Offices. 
They're not even close to being Post Offices. They fulfil a different 
role, and need to be identified as such.


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

[SK53]

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 forms, etc). Extending the meaning of the tag would make OSM
data immediately intrinsically less useful in cities where courier offices
exist. Such a change would a) require every post office to be suitably
tagged with an indication of which service it belongs to; and b) require
every data consumer to change.

At the very least discuss this on the tagging mailing list: such a change
in meaning for a widely used tag needs to be treated with caution and
consensus in more than just the UK.

Jerry



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 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 I got it
> >> from somewhere. Not that it seems very natural.
> >
> > I'm fairly sure this came up a couple of months ago and the answer was
> > amenity=post_depot; operator=Royal Mail.  It's not, in principle,
> different
> > from Hermes or TNT.
>
> That's certainly what I'd use. I think there's a good case for tagging
> customer-facing shop-like outlets of courier firms as
> amenity=post_office since they're places from which you can send
> stuff. But for the large warehouse-style sorting/distribution centres
> I think something else is needed. amenity=post_depot seems a good
> choice to me. It has over 400 uses worldwide, of which over 300 are in
> the UK.
>
> The legitimate use of amenity=post_office for non-Post Office Ltd
> branches creates a slight issue for my comparison tool. I've got some
> heuristics to account for some sets of objects based on name,
> operator, and brand tagging. See:
> http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/osm-unmatched.html#non-pol
>
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Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

[Philip Barnes]

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 
Probably lots of other things that I've not thought of. 

Whilst post depot is useful for collecting things that an individual has 
ordered, sending stuff by courier is a business service. DHL will not be 
interested in sending my Christmas cards and certainly not for the price Royal 
mail charges. 

Phil (trigpoint) 




On 3 May 2018 10:45:57 BST, Michael Collinson  wrote:
>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 handle DHL and 
>other services that might also be considered as postal networks, 
>network=Post Nord;DHL
>
>Mike
>
>
>On 2018-05-03 11:15, Brian Prangle wrote:
>> 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) 
>> > > wrote:
>>
>> 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 that doesn't
>> seem to be
>> >> in the wiki (or in the presets for josm). Yet I am sure that I
>> got it
>> >> from somewhere. Not that it seems very natural.
>> >
>> > I'm fairly sure this came up a couple of months ago and the
>> answer was
>> > amenity=post_depot; operator=Royal Mail.  It's not, in
>> principle, different
>> > from Hermes or TNT.
>>
>> That's certainly what I'd use. I think there's a good case for
>tagging
>> customer-facing shop-like outlets of courier firms as
>> amenity=post_office since they're places from which you can send
>> stuff. But for the large warehouse-style sorting/distribution
>centres
>> I think something else is needed. amenity=post_depot seems a good
>> choice to me. It has over 400 uses worldwide, of which over 300
>are in
>> the UK.
>>
>> The legitimate use of amenity=post_office for non-Post Office Ltd
>> branches creates a slight issue for my comparison tool. I've got
>some
>> heuristics to account for some sets of objects based on name,
>> operator, and brand tagging. See:
>>
>http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/osm-unmatched.html#non-pol
>>
>
>>
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Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

[Michael Collinson]

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 handle DHL and 
other services that might also be considered as postal networks, 
network=Post Nord;DHL


Mike


On 2018-05-03 11:15, Brian Prangle wrote:

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) 
> wrote:


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 that doesn't
seem to be
>> in the wiki (or in the presets for josm). Yet I am sure that I
got it
>> from somewhere. Not that it seems very natural.
>
> I'm fairly sure this came up a couple of months ago and the
answer was
> amenity=post_depot; operator=Royal Mail.  It's not, in
principle, different
> from Hermes or TNT.

That's certainly what I'd use. I think there's a good case for tagging
customer-facing shop-like outlets of courier firms as
amenity=post_office since they're places from which you can send
stuff. But for the large warehouse-style sorting/distribution centres
I think something else is needed. amenity=post_depot seems a good
choice to me. It has over 400 uses worldwide, of which over 300 are in
the UK.

The legitimate use of amenity=post_office for non-Post Office Ltd
branches creates a slight issue for my comparison tool. I've got some
heuristics to account for some sets of objects based on name,
operator, and brand tagging. See:
http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/osm-unmatched.html#non-pol


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

[Brian Prangle]

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 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 I got it
> >> from somewhere. Not that it seems very natural.
> >
> > I'm fairly sure this came up a couple of months ago and the answer was
> > amenity=post_depot; operator=Royal Mail.  It's not, in principle,
> different
> > from Hermes or TNT.
>
> That's certainly what I'd use. I think there's a good case for tagging
> customer-facing shop-like outlets of courier firms as
> amenity=post_office since they're places from which you can send
> stuff. But for the large warehouse-style sorting/distribution centres
> I think something else is needed. amenity=post_depot seems a good
> choice to me. It has over 400 uses worldwide, of which over 300 are in
> the UK.
>
> The legitimate use of amenity=post_office for non-Post Office Ltd
> branches creates a slight issue for my comparison tool. I've got some
> heuristics to account for some sets of objects based on name,
> operator, and brand tagging. See:
> http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/osm-unmatched.html#non-pol
>
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Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

[Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)]

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 that doesn't seem to be
>> in the wiki (or in the presets for josm). Yet I am sure that I got it
>> from somewhere. Not that it seems very natural.
>
> I'm fairly sure this came up a couple of months ago and the answer was
> amenity=post_depot; operator=Royal Mail.  It's not, in principle, different
> from Hermes or TNT.

That's certainly what I'd use. I think there's a good case for tagging
customer-facing shop-like outlets of courier firms as
amenity=post_office since they're places from which you can send
stuff. But for the large warehouse-style sorting/distribution centres
I think something else is needed. amenity=post_depot seems a good
choice to me. It has over 400 uses worldwide, of which over 300 are in
the UK.

The legitimate use of amenity=post_office for non-Post Office Ltd
branches creates a slight issue for my comparison tool. I've got some
heuristics to account for some sets of objects based on name,
operator, and brand tagging. See:
http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/osm-unmatched.html#non-pol

Robert.

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

[David Woolley]

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 I got it
from somewhere. Not that it seems very natural.


I'm fairly sure this came up a couple of months ago and the answer was 
amenity=post_depot; operator=Royal Mail.  It's not, in principle, 
different from Hermes or TNT.


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

[ael]

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 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 I got it
from somewhere. Not that it seems very natural.

I would have thought that this a common situation, so I am a bit bemused
that it doesn't seem to be covered anywhere. Or am I missing
something blindingly obvious?

ael


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[Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

[Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)]

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 been a
slow but steady increase in the total number of matched branches
(blue) and a decrease in the number of closed branches removed (red).
There's also been a good start on adding reference numbers to the
existing branches (green) to help verify matches and keep things in
sync with the official data.

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 fix in the next two months?

To make life easier, there's a comparison tool at
http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/progress/ which is currently
updated more-or-less daily. Click through to your postcode area to see
a map showing the discrepancies between OSM and the official list.
Detailed suggestions for mapping actions based on these maps can be
found at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/mapping-notes.html .

One issue that was raised earlier was that since the official branch
data is only updated annually, it will become out of date as branches
open and close. It would therefore be useful to have a way of
suppressing these false positives in the tool. I think the best way to
handle this would be to maintain an "updates" list of newly opened and
recently closed branches, that can be fed in to the tool. I'll have a
look at setting something up shortly.

Best wishes,

Robert.

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