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

[Tobias Wrede]

Am 16.05.2017 um 23:42 schrieb John Willis:
>> On May 16, 2017, at 4:29 PM, Tobias Wrede <list at tobias-wrede.de> wrote:
>>
>> May I suggest to focus the proposal on the frontend for now?
> The front end is the most difficult part, and having a proposal that covers the chain and many permutations is important.
>
> For example, I would _never_ go to a UPS sort facility to ship a package, but I imagine some do in other countries.
In that respect UPS is not any different from a supermarket or a dry 
cleaner. You go to the shop=supermarket or shop=dry clener but not 
Tesco's warehouse or the central dry cleaning facility.

> But tagging a giant commercial warehouse with a package window as "shop=courier" seems wrong.
If they have a package window I would definitely tag that with 
shop=courier, but not the whole warehouse.

> People may come to the courier=* wiki page to tag a courier's warehouse that they see their package is at. Being able to tag it is important. I have added regional_hub warehouses in google Maps when I find my package is first accepted into the tracking system there. People search for where those facilities are all the time.
So that's why a propose shop or amenity. That's clearly the place a 
regular customer goes. The warehouse/sorting hub could get a 
building=warehouse or whatsoever. Taggers should be able to make that 
differentiation. They don't tag the cold storage warehouse around as 
supermarket, either.
> After thinking about it a bit, I think we should limit this to non-freight/logistics and create a separate logistics=*for trucking/freight/etc later. But you should be able to tag a commercial warehouse as part of the courier=* tag.

IMHO The problem at hand is how does a regular OSM user find a courier. 
At least for me I need a courier less often than a supermarket but 
significantly more often than a pharmacy. So from my viewpoint we should 
really focus on the shop aspect for now. You now suggest to later 
introduce a logistics=* structure. I think in the backend the 
distinction between courier and freight services gets more complicated 
to not doable. I would really like to not think about that at all for now.

Tobi