[Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - (office=courier)"

[Marc Gemis]

I still believe that for the feature at hand it is enough to have
amenity=courier, just so we can distinguish it from the traditional
postal_office. Do we need subtags for courier yet ? I do not think so.

We are mapping supermarkets/convenience stores which offer different
products/services for more than 10 years without subtags to
differentiate between hypermarkets, discounters, supermarkets that
offer a services of a licensed butcher, etc. Any attempt on adding
detail to this was seen as unneeded for OSM, yet we demand this level
of detail from a 1.0 proposal for courier services ?

m.




On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:15 PM, John Willis <johnw at mac.com> wrote:
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> Javbw
>> On Apr 24, 2017, at 11:50 PM, Tobias Wrede <list at tobias-wrede.de> wrote:
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>> In my area in Germany only the big main "Deutsche Post" offices of a city have survived.
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> This is true in the US - I have maybe 3 post offices I can think of in 4-5 KM of my old house in San Diego.
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> I went to google maps on my phone and set the zoom to the smallest map where the scale still shows 2KM as the legend of the scale (roughly 10x20km) on a large phone.
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> In La Mesa & El Cajon, I had 7 post offices. In Kiryu & Omama, I had 17. There is one about every KM downtown and one every 4 KM in the more rural area.
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> So distribution is going to vary wildly by country.
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> This might make it more important where there are fewer ones - if I am looking for a post office in particular in the US - I will have a more limited selection, so showing the closest one is most important. In Japan, unless you are in a very rural/uninhabited area, drive for 10 minutes in any direction and you will hit a post office along a secondary road.
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