[Tagging] Native English speakers: locker or lockbox?

[Tod Fitch]

As a US English speaker, I'd call those items in your photo lockers.

My 40+ year old American Heritage Dictionary says, among other things that a locker is "an enclosure that may be locked, especially one used by a person at a gymnasium or public place, for the safekeeping of clothing and valuables."

To me a lockbox would be a much smaller thing for storing documents and cash and might even be portable. Oddly, either I am blind or "lockbox" is missing from both my American Heritage Dictionary and my much older Oxford English Dictionary.

-Tod



On Jun 24, 2014, at 10:32 AM, Michael Reichert wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> over a year ago I was indoor-mapping the central train station of
> Heilbronn, Germany and looked for a tag to tag a locker/lockbox like this:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schlie%C3%9Ff%C3%A4cher_-_Bahnhof_Neumarkt_Oberpfalz.jpg
> 
> After reading a discussion at talk-de from October 2010 [1], I decided
> to tag them amenity=lockbox. [2] In that discussion they decided to use
> the amenity key instead of tourism key.
> 
> At the moment Constantin Müller (aka ubahnverleih) and I think about a
> consistent tagging of this amenities. At the moment there are 9 objects
> tagged amenity=lockbox and 30 objects tagged amenity=locker [3, 4].
> Because there is few difference between both tags I would like to ask
> the native English speakers at this list to answer me following question:
> 
> What word describes a locker/lockbox at a train station (see linked
> image above) better? Locker or lockbox? In the discussion at talk-de
> Martin Koppenhöfer wrote that a lockbox can be found at a bank (for
> money, gold etc.). But he was not sure. [5]
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> [1] German:
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2010-October/076965.html
> [2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/215036986#map=18/49.14281/9.20764
> [3] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=locker#overview
> [4] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=lockbox#overview
> [5] German:
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2010-October/076976.html
> 
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