<div dir="ltr">On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 13:01, Robin Burek <<a href="mailto:robin.burek@gmx.de">robin.burek@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Hey, <br>
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<pre>post_office:type is in use in France for ex
post_office:type=post_partner with amenity=post_office
to describe the additional feature in a shop.
looking at [2], it seems to be used in other countries as well.
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<p>The problem is: There are (in Germany, where else) everytime two
nodes for one shop/amenity. That don't discribe the reality, it
creates a lot of <span lang="en"><span><span>modification
effort if you want to update openinghours or when the shop
itself is closing. For complaning - in Germany: You have
one shop/amenity (sometimes a craft also) and this
shop/amenity operates the postal services by themself on
behalf. And this isn't a post office, it is a shop with post
services.</span></span></span></p></div></blockquote><div>Several decades ago, large towns and cities in the UK would have a</div><div>main post office (which usually did nothing but postal services) and</div><div>several sub-post offices (official terminology) which were shops which</div><div>also did a complete, or almost-complete range of postal services.</div><div><br></div><div>These days, some main post offices have closed as independent operations</div><div>and now the main post office is a separate area within a supermarket or</div><div>large shop. These days many shops can sell stamps without being</div><div>regarded in any way as post offices.</div><div><br></div><div>Oh, and we now have shops that act as collection points for various</div><div>parcel delivery companies and may also accept parcels (such as</div><div>returned items) for collection by those companies.</div><div><br></div><div>Your proposal seems to be a messy hybrid of all these things,</div><div>possibly applicable to shops that just sell stamps. There are a</div><div>lot of shops that just sell stamps.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Also, if you achieve your aim of merging both the shop and the</div><div>postal services into one object, which one gets rendered and why?</div><div>I've mapped a few shops which are also either main post offices</div><div>or sub-post offices and both icons show up. It's a shop. It's</div><div>a post office. And people get to see both icons on the map.</div><div>If they're looking for a post office, there's the icon. If they're</div><div>looking for a shop, there's the icon.<br></div><div><br></div><div>See, for example, <a href="https://www.siopypentre.co.uk/">https://www.siopypentre.co.uk/</a> a convenience</div><div> store and post office which offers (in their words) "Post office and banking.</div><div> Wholefoods, refill service on laundry and
beauty products, local produce and</div><div> bread. Happy shopper value goods.
Homemade sandwiches and local bean to</div><div> cup coffee." They also rent out the upstairs rooms as a holiday cottage.</div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.05539&mlon=-4.63278#map=19/52.05539/-4.63278">https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.05539&mlon=-4.63278#map=19/52.05539/-4.63278</a></div><div><br></div><div>BTW, "Siop y Pentre" is Welsh for "Village Shop," so they undercut all the</div><div> other Welsh village shops with that domain name, and might not have</div><div>been allowed to register it if the registrars understood Welsh. :)<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>