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 <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 >
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