[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Tagging Parcel Depots

[Big Fat Frog]

Good idea on the amenity=post_depot, have changed those in my area, have 
also added building=warehouse on the building itself, not sure if that 
make sense, it does to me.

Jonathan

On 22/10/2012 14:09, Matt Williams wrote:
> 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
>
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