I fully support the expanded version, not the abbreviated version. On Tue, Aug 28, 2018, 14:32 Leif Rasmussen <354...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > A couple of days ago, I noticed that different post boxes in the United > States had different ways of tagging that they were part of the USPS > system. Roughly 60% had "operator"="USPS", 40% "operator"="United States > Postal Service", and about 15 similar to "operator"="United States Post > Services" or "United States Post Office". I wanted to make them all the > same, so I asked on the OSMUS Slack group about the tags, and most people > supported "USPS". I then proceeded to upload a changeset manually > converting 1500 "United States Postal Service" or similar to "USPS". I > should have waited longer before uploading. > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/62020302 > https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Boq > All post boxes in the USPS system now have "operator"="USPS". > After uploading, people expressed concern about the choice of "USPS" over > "United States Postal Service". The wiki states that abbreviations should > be expanded, "USPS" could be confused with other agencies > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Power_Squadrons>, and this > counted as an automated edit, which should have had better planning with > the OSM community. > I would now like to propose converting all post boxes with the tag > "operator"="USPS" to "operator"="United States Postal Service". I would > also like to add the tag "operator:wikidata"="Q668687" to the post boxes > that currently have "operator"="USPS". Please reply with any feedback or > concerns you have with this proposal. > Thank you, > Leif Rasmussen > OSM username: LeifRasmussen <https://www.osm.org/user/LeifRasmussen> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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