[Tagging] Tagging Digest, Vol 57, Issue 53

[Jack Burke]

I would describe the difference between the two as:

A locker is a medium or large size (permanently or semi-permanently) fixed place to safeguard items.

A lockbox is a small, portable, lockable place to protect items from casual observation.

In literature, I think the word lockbox is more often used to describe a small locking box where women place mementos they don't want others to see, but offer no real safeguard against theft, whereas a locker is more secure, even against low-level thieves, although a good thief would still be able to break in.  But maybe that understanding comes from reading too much Sherlock Holmes.


--jack




Message: 6
 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:55:45 +0100
 From: Richard Mann <richard.mann.westoxford at gmail.com>
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 lockbox?
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 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 M?ller (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 Koppenh?fer 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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