I received this reply from SK53, inadvertently sent to me alone, which
I'm resending to the list with his permission...
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First of all don't go by definitions on the wiki. The consensus tag (at
least in UK) is amenity=post_depot.
Second, we have the perfectly reasonably tag post_depot to distinguish
these things.
Third, DONT TAG FOR THE RENDERER. Just because you cant see them on the OSM
front page does not mean that you cant search for them. These are truly
different things. Locating delivery offices is not always easy, they are
often in some obscure parts of an industrial estate. I actually mapped a
local one because my father had tried to find it and failed. They need to
be distinguished, if they are just tagged post office they disappear in the
noise of real post offices.
As for DHL, CityLink etc, this is a more involved problem, particularly as
the Royal Mail is now not necessarily a universal service provider.
However, I think some other tag should be used for these distinct from
post_office and post_depot. parcel_depot or parcel_office come immediately
to mind.
Typically a delivery office will have a post code ending 1AA, as in the
Maidenhead Delivery office. Unmapped ones can be found by looking for large
numbers of post codes in the same place. I wrote a bit about adding them to
OSM
here<http://sk53-osm.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/british-postcodes-on-openstreetmap.html>
.
Jerry
On 15 January 2014 17:59, John Aldridge <j...@jjdash.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On 15/01/2014 17:49, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
>
>> On 15 January 2014 16:03, John Aldridge <j...@jjdash.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> If I believed there was a snowflake in hell's chance of getting
>>> amenity=post_depot objects displayed on the default map, I'd be more
>>> sympathetic, but as it is I think I'd prefer something like...
>>>
>>
>> If everyone followed that reasoning, there would never be any new tags
>> created! Besides, deliberately tagging known-not-to-be-a-post-office
>> objects as post offices is incorrectly tagging for the renderer.
>>
>
> I do understand your position, but I don't think that's a fair criticism
> of mine. These things *are* post offices by the definition in the Wiki, so
> I don't think it's unreasonable to tag them that way.
>
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> Cheers,
> John
>
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