[Talk-ca] Community Mailboxes and Relay Boxes Tagging

[john whelan]

They also have parcel boxes not just letters.

Canada Post calls them community mail boxes so why not go with that?

Thanks John

On Sun, Oct 16, 2022, 15:38 wolfy1339 via Talk-ca <talk-ca at openstreetmap.org>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> It has come up in the OSM Discord that the current tagging for the
> community mailboxes and the relay boxes are outdated.
>
>
> The `amenity=relay_box` tag is discouraged and instead the tags
> `man_made=street_cabinet` + `street_cabinet=postal_service` be used.
> The `amenity=relay_box` is only tagged 308 times worldwide, of which
> most are tagged in Canda, compared to 2 309 worldwide.
> Therefore I propose to update the tagging guidelines to reflect the
> worldwide established tag.
>
>
> The community mailboxes are currently tagged as `amenity=post_box`,
> which according to the wiki and users of the OSM Discord, is for
> outbound mail only.
> Another reason given is that applications will not understand. It has
> also been disputed by a decade old question on the OSM Help forums [1]
> Since community mailboxes handle incoming mail as the prominent
> function, the more appropriate tag would be `amenity=letter_box`.
> However, there currently isn't an equivalent tag for
> `post_box:type=community`.
> It has been recommended to tag these as `amenity=letter_box` +
> `post_box=yes`
>
>
> What are your thoughts on this?
>
>
>
> [1]: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/16762/block-mailbox-tagging
>
>
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