<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><base href="x-msg://89/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Oct 9, 2014, at 9:18 PM, Dudley Ibbett <<a href="mailto:dudleyibbett@hotmail.com">dudleyibbett@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div data-externalstyle="false" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div>Other possible descriptions would be:</div><div><br></div><div>“haulage” for large loads. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haulage" target="_parent">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haulage</a></div><div>“courier” for smaller items.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier" target="_parent">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier</a></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><b style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">Distribution logistics</b> is the *planning* of moving goods from a factory to the customer - the post office isn't a logistics company. Fedex or UPS, wich will pick up, store, warehouse, and ship another company's goods as they request them to be shipped to the customer for them is a Distribution Logistics company. - they plan it (to guarantee delivery) and move it all too. </div><div><br></div><div>It seems that Haulage is like for ore transport or bulk goods - not something you'd do with a truck on the highway. </div><div><br></div><div>I think it is something commonly described as a logistics company. </div><div><br></div><div>Courrier just delivers a package for a to b for a fee, like a local or regional delivery company. </div><div><br></div><div>maybe </div><div>commercial=logistics &</div><div><br></div><div>logistics=Distribution</div><div>logistics=Courrier</div><div>logistics=Trucking to pick up the remainder, as there are a myriad of special delivery places - piano movers, livestock delivery, boat movers, for example. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_driver#Job_categories">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_driver#Job_categories</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Javbw</div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div data-externalstyle="false" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div><br></div><div>Dudley</div><div><br></div><div style="padding-top: 5px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; "><font face="Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'Khmer UI', 'Nirmala UI', Tunga, 'Lao UI', Ebrima, sans-serif" style="line-height: 15pt; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'Khmer UI', 'Nirmala UI', Tunga, 'Lao UI', Ebrima, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:jcg.sturdy@gmail.com" target="_parent">John Sturdy</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 9 October 2014 12:26<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org" target="_parent">Tag discussion, strategy and related tools</a></font></div><div><br></div><div class="PlainText">On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Andreas Labres <<a href="mailto:list@lab.at">list@lab.at</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Any suggestion how to tag a transport company (a company forwarding goods, don't<br>> know how you call these guys from the "Güterbeförderungsgewerbe" like DPD etc.<br>> in English)?<br><br>The companies often refer to their sector as "logistics", although I<br>think that's probably the marketing people trying to sound clever, and<br>that the people actually driving and loading the trucks will call it<br>"transport".<br><br>__John<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Tagging mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging" target="_parent">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Tagging mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>