[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Tagging Parcel Depots

[Matt Williams]

On 22 October 2012 13:35, Nick Verdegem <digital.diablo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just updating my local area and want to add a couple of Parcel Depots,  one
> for the Royal Mail, and one for TNT.
>
> The Royal Mail one is *not* amenity=post_office as it does not accept
> parcels/letters for onward delivery, only collection of undeliverables.
>
> The TNT one will send/receive parcels/packages, but I'm not sure if
> post_office would be acceptable and it would appear that amenity=cargo has
> been abandoned.
>
> Anyone got any guidance/suggestions on how to effectively tag these?

According to taginfo, the most commonly used tag (that I can find) is
amenity=post_depot [1] with 36 uses. I'd suggest that we start using
that and that if noone objects, we should add a wiki page [2] for it
and link to it from the post_office page.

Matt

[1] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=post_depot
[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=post_depot