[Talk-GB] Royal Mail & Parcelforce delivery offices

[John Aldridge]

On 16/01/2014 09:34, Pierre Riteau wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, at 05:59 PM, John Aldridge wrote:
>> On 15/01/2014 17:49, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
>>> On 15 January 2014 16:03, John Aldridge <jpsa at jjdash.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> If I believed there was a snowflake in hell's chance of getting
>>>> amenity=post_depot objects displayed on the default map, I'd be more
>>>> sympathetic, but as it is I think I'd prefer something like...
>>>
>>> If everyone followed that reasoning, there would never be any new tags
>>> created! Besides, deliberately tagging known-not-to-be-a-post-office
>>> objects as post offices is incorrectly tagging for the renderer.
>>
>> I do understand your position, but I don't think that's a fair criticism
>> of mine. These things *are* post offices by the definition in the Wiki,
>> so I don't think it's unreasonable to tag them that way.
>
> Then maybe the definition in the Wiki should be modified to correspond
> to what most people will intuitively see as a post office?
>
> I would say that a post office is not only a place where you can send
> *or* collect letters and parcels, but rather a place where you can send
> letters and parcels (including buying stamps and weighting your
> parcels), *and possibly* collect letters and parcels.

Heh... that definition excludes 'regular' (Post Office Ltd) post 
offices, though! If you try to send a letter at one of those, they tell 
you to put it in the (Royal Mail) post box outside.

-- 
Cheers,
John