<div dir="ltr">I have begun to tag these with "collection:covid19=priority" based on similar Covid-related tags suggested by iD.<div><br></div><div>It's a start.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><i>Paul</i></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 13:33, SK53 <<a href="mailto:sk53.osm@gmail.com">sk53.osm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">A post fixed 'D' merely indicates that the box is collected during delivery rounds. All the ones I've seen have collection times of 7 am weekdays & 9 am on Saturday. The 'D' is added when there is a change from a late afternoon weekday collection. I think a 'P' suffix is used for metered mail/parcel post boxes.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">One thing I've been meaning to ask about are "priority postboxes" indicated by a sticker & needed for sending PCR tests back for analysis.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jerry</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 19 Aug 2021, 10:44 Edward Bainton, <<a href="mailto:bainton.ete@gmail.com" target="_blank">bainton.ete@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Robert<div><br></div><div>Just to say that I've found a couple of post boxes with almost but not quite the same ref as in the Royal Mail list (at least, going by your Post Hoc site)</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know if you do fuzzy matches but in case of any help:</div><div><ul><li>These two have both had a 'D' added to the end of the ref:</li><ul><li><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6028345590" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6028345590</a></li><li><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7435689367" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7435689367</a></li></ul><li>One other I recently edited had a '1' added at the end (11>111 iirc). I can't remember which of my changesets it was, and I'm not good enough at Overpass to grub it up, but assume you could if you needed to.</li></ul><div>Thanks for the great tool,</div></div><div><br></div><div>Edward</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Edward Bainton</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:bainton.ete@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">bainton.ete@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 at 06:12<br>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] [talk-gb] Royal Mail post-box finder<br>To: Paul Berry <<a href="mailto:pmberry2007@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">pmberry2007@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a> <<a href="mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">talk-gb@openstreetmap.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Post Hoc is very useful then! Thanks for the link and to whoever produced the site. I'll go and use that to find the boxes on the ground.<div><br></div><div>Should I be following iD's suggestion to add wikidata operator?</div><div><br></div><div>And is there any value in collecting the date that now appears next to the ref number on the plate? (Seems to be a recent addition?)</div><div><br></div><div>eg, the last two lines of the plate on <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/29042567" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">this box in Ely</a> read</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>Postbox number <b>CB7 15 </b>13/10/2020</div><div>CP1</div></blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 at 22:34, Paul Berry <<a href="mailto:pmberry2007@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">pmberry2007@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">>
2. Does anyone know if we can use this data to identify boxes currently unmapped in OSM, or to add their ref numbers? The only attribution is to OSM contributors, but I'm guessing the overlaid data is from their own sources?<div><br></div><div>Yes, to identify unmapped boxes (though better tools already exist (link to follow) but no to adding ref numbers. Interestingly, the box positions and details are actually more accurate and richer in OSM (for those mapped by a ground survey) than Royal Mail have on their records. (It's possible, however, that they're deliberately offering a slightly degraded dataset with their map.)</div><div><br></div><div>Ultimately, it's probably the same dataset as Robert Whittaker uses for his excellent Post Hoc tool and I'd be surprised if the copyright warning given on <a href="https://osm.mathmos.net/postboxes" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://osm.mathmos.net/postboxes</a> didn't apply to the new RM map.<br><br>Aside from these concerns, it's great to see another major presence adopt OSM-derived data for their website mapping tool.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br><i>Paul</i></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 at 12:23, Edward Bainton <<a href="mailto:bainton.ete@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">bainton.ete@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Royal Mail has recently added an OSM-aided search function for post boxes and other services:<div><a href="https://www.royalmail.com/services-near-you" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.royalmail.com/services-near-you</a> - eg results <a href="https://www.royalmail.com/services-near-you#/results?postcode=SW1A%201AA&latitude=51.501009&longitude=-0.141588&searchRadius=40&count=40&filters=&officeType=postboxes" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div>1. Does anyone know why the map loads so slowly? Is that an our-side problem, or theirs?</div><div><br></div><div>2. Does anyone know if we can use this data to identify boxes currently unmapped in OSM, or to add their ref numbers? The only attribution is to OSM contributors, but I'm guessing the overlaid data is from their own sources?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Edward</div></div>
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