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

[Tobias Wrede]

Am 25.04.2017 um 11:21 schrieb John Willis:
> If I search for a supermarket and you send me to a 7-11, you failed.
>
> Post offices have different scopes in different places, ways we 
> usually separate by tag, because we separate "duckiness" by tag. This 
> varies by region, so we need a way to represent both, and we have 
> existing tags as well.
> [...] This is not something left to "operator". Brand is for 
> separating similar items - a Burger King vs a McDonalds - not to 
> separate steakhouses from a butcher shop. We are deciding where to 
> draw the lines on scope, like convenience stores, markets, 
> supermarkets, and malls.

I partly agree but when I tag Walmart or Trader Joe's as a supermarket's 
brand that carries a clear expectation towards the assortment of the store.


> The sticky point seems to be that because nationalized post services 
> and commercial courier services are available in different places 
> *beyond* the traditional offices - buying stamps at a gas station, box 
> shops that ship via post and courier systems, etc, that the "amenity" 
> of a location that offers post/courier service is blurred in many 
> places, or the post''s importance in some places has dwindled, 
> relegating it to be a courier. We should be figuring out how to handle 
> assigning the "amenity" of those services (similar to how a hotel has 
> a workout room, but that doesn't make the hotel a gym) to other kinds 
> of businesses, in a way where we can have multiple values. A hotel has 
> parking, a pool, gym, etc, but it is foremost a "hotel" with various 
> amenities. Having a dedicated courier or post office tag isn't so much 
> of an issue - in many places with a traditional post system, it is 
> still different enough to warrant separate tags. it's adding these 
> courier/post options to other businesses or shops that needs to be 
> worked out. Mashing post offices and courier services together is not 
> going to solve that issue nor improve OSM tagging in any appreciable way.
>
> [...]
> Having a tagging system to add that onto another shop sounds like that 
> is what people are looking for, if I understand correctly.
>
At least that is part of it. Along the convenience store supermarket 
analogy maybe we need something like the amenity=post_office for the 
traditional ones and an amenity=shipping_services (just a working title) 
for everything else, not just couriers. That would work at least for the 
dedicated shops. For the in-shop services provided in kiosks etc. it 
might be a different tagging.
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