[Talk-ca] Canada Post outlets not operated by Canada Post

[john whelan]

I think in Ottawa the majority are shoppersdrug market.  I think only two
or three are actual Canada post offices.

Cheerio John

On Thu, May 8, 2025, 11:54 Jarek Piórkowski <jarek at piorkowski.ca> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> At least some Canada Post postal outlets are not operated by Canada Post.
> See link to forum below for photographic evidence.
>
> However, the Name Suggestion Index is currently programmed to add
> `operator=Canada Post` tags to all `amenity=post_office` that have a name
> like "Canada Post" [1], and `operator=Postes Canada` for names matching
> "Poste Canada" [2], as well as `operator:wikidata=Q1032001` for both.
>
> I am thinking that this should be changed and the tags added should be
> `brand` and `brand:wikidata`, but not `operator` or `operator:wikidata`.
> This would not prevent adding `operator=Canada Post` tags manually on the
> offices that _are_ operated by Canada Post.
>
> But I don’t fully know the organizational details around Canada Post. How
> many of "Canada Post" outlets are actually operated by Canada Post - is it
> most, or a minority? Is it maybe that Postal Stations and Post Offices are
> operated by Canada Post, but most outlets are not?
>
> This is a cross-post from the community forum, in case someone reads one
> but not the other:
> https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/canada-post-outlets-not-operated-by-canada-post/129748
> - feel free to respond either here or there. I have made a draft pull
> request in Name Suggestion Index with the proposed change:
> https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/pull/10942 where you can
> also comment.
>
> Thanks!
> Jarek
>
> [1]:
> https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/blob/e18d68f/data/operators/amenity/post_office.json#L187-L199
> [2]:
> https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/blob/e18d68f/data/operators/amenity/post_office.json#L1168-L1183
>
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