On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Eric H. Christensen < e...@christensenplace.us> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 09:33:08AM -0700, Peter Dobratz wrote: > > After checking a few of the objects, it looks like this change removed > > "shop=copyshop" and added "amenity=post_office". I don't necessarily > > disagree with this change. In my mind I had been reserving post_office > for > > entities controlled by the government-run United States Postal Service, > but > > after reading the wiki I see that private companies can be also > designated > > as post_office, and the UPS Store certainly fulfills many of the same > > functions as government-run post offices. > > Isn't there a way to specify the provider of the service (outside the > name?)? I've run into this while marking post_box for UPS and FedEx drop > points that I run across. > For "amenity=post_box", I add an operator tag. The official blue mailboxes get "United States Postal Service" and I also tag other common providers "United Parcel Service" and "FedEx". These same values for the operator tag could be added to post offices and UPS and FedEx retail store locations.
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