<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">I would avoid using amenity=post_office for anything other than a proper post office.<br>
<br>
The term post office is much more than a place to send parcels or letters.<br>
<br>
In the UK a post office offers<br>
Banking services<br>
I can tax my car<br>
I can apply for a passport<br>
I can collect my pension<br>
Exchange currency <br>
Probably lots of other things that I've not thought of. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
Phil (trigpoint) <br>
<br>
<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 May 2018 10:45:57 BST, Michael Collinson <mike@ayeltd.biz> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>At the risk of being pedantic, but would a "network" tag, similar
to bus routes, not be more appropriate?</p>
<p>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<br>
</p>
<p>Mike<br>
</p>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-05-03 11:15, Brian Prangle
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAECtZzAETtXKXWLa0EzkRfG+O7d++6=q=XMWEpq9F-QepD9Z8A@mail.gmail.com">
<div dir="ltr">
<div>
<div>
<div>Hi Robert<br>
<br>
</div>
If an operator tag is added to post_office tags then your
comparison tool would be OK<br>
<br>
</div>
Regards<br>
<br>
</div>
Brian<br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 3 May 2018 at 10:08, Robert
Whittaker (OSM lists) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert.whittaker+osm@gmail.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">robert.whittaker+osm@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 2 May 2018 at 19:08, David Woolley <<a href="mailto:forums@david-woolley.me.uk" moz-do-not-send="true">forums@david-woolley.me.uk</a>>
wrote:<br>
> On 02/05/18 18:52, ael wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I am confused:-) How should a Royal mail local
delivery office be<br>
>> tagged? It seems that it is not
amenity=post_office. I notice that<br>
>> I have used post_depot once some time ago, but
that doesn't seem to be<br>
>> in the wiki (or in the presets for josm). Yet I
am sure that I got it<br>
>> from somewhere. Not that it seems very natural.<br>
><br>
> I'm fairly sure this came up a couple of months ago
and the answer was<br>
> amenity=post_depot; operator=Royal Mail. It's not,
in principle, different<br>
> from Hermes or TNT.<br>
<br>
</span>That's certainly what I'd use. I think there's a good
case for tagging<br>
customer-facing shop-like outlets of courier firms as<br>
amenity=post_office since they're places from which you can
send<br>
stuff. But for the large warehouse-style
sorting/distribution centres<br>
I think something else is needed. amenity=post_depot seems a
good<br>
choice to me. It has over 400 uses worldwide, of which over
300 are in<br>
the UK.<br>
<br>
The legitimate use of amenity=post_office for non-Post
Office Ltd<br>
branches creates a slight issue for my comparison tool. I've
got some<br>
heuristics to account for some sets of objects based on
name,<br>
operator, and brand tagging. See:<br>
<a href="http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/osm-unmatched.html#non-pol" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/<wbr>postoffice/osm-unmatched.html#<wbr>non-pol</a><br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Robert.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Robert Whittaker<br>
</font></span>
<div class="HOEnZb">
<div class="h5"><br>
______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
Talk-GB mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" moz-do-not-send="true">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
<a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<br>
</div>
<br>
<fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset>
<br>
<pre wrap="">_______________________________________________
Talk-GB mailing list
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a>
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br>
-- <br>
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html>