[Tagging] Native English speakers: locker or lockbox?

[Richard Mann]

Yes - in Britain they would be signposted "left luggage".

But we're a tolerant lot, and "lockers" would be perfectly acceptable (and
probably how many people, especially younger people, would refer to them)


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Michael Reichert <nakaner at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> Am 24.06.2014 19:41, schrieb Richard Mann:
> > "left luggage" for the facility as a whole, probably "locker" for them
> > individually
> >
> > it might be more "international" to call them "lockers", though
>
> Thank you for the additional phrases. Are your answers in British
> English? (Because tags should be in British English, shouldn't they?)
>
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Michael Reichert <nakaner at gmx.net>
> wrote:
> >> 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]
>
>
> Taginfos says:
> 9 amenity=lockbox
> 30 amenity=locker
> 48 amenity=lockers
> 4 amenity=left_luggage
>
> Best regards
>
> Michael
>
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