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 <m...@ayeltd.biz> 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)
>> <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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