[talk-au] Phone boxes

[Alex Sims]

Hi,

The public phones are enclosed in “cabinets”. It’s a really good question you ask as I’m not sure what official names they have if any. The instrument within them does have a code number and type but the cabinet less so.

I was a bit surprised by the Wiki using British Telecom cabinet types instead of generic descriptions. IMHO the tagging should be generic and reflect the features so they are globally understood, so fully enclosed with door, enclosed in a box without a door, partially enclosed, no enclosure

Alex

From: Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>

I have mapped a few roadside public phones recently & wondered what we're supposed to call them, then just saw this post https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2021-May/061453.html which jogged my memory into asking you all.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dtelephone refers to the type of booth, & UK types of booth are listed at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:booth.

Does anybody know what Telstra calls it's booths? (if anything?) eg
https://goo.gl/maps/PDSmT5pprx5ngJ8CA or
https://goo.gl/maps/ngDGa8eXPubSPRkP8

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