On 2 May 2018 at 19:08, David Woolley <for...@david-woolley.me.uk> 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. -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
