[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Tagging Parcel Depots

[Andy Robinson]

I'd probably use "distribution_centre"

Cheers
Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Big Fat Frog [mailto:bigfatfrog67 at gmail.com]
> Sent: 22 October 2012 16:27
> To: talk-gb-westmidlands at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Tagging Parcel Depots
> 
> 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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