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)
<robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com
<mailto:robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 2 May 2018 at 19:08, David Woolley <for...@david-woolley.me.uk
<mailto: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
<http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/osm-unmatched.html#non-pol>
Robert.
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