[Talk-GB] One for Post Box obsessives
Robert Norris
rw_norris at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 21 19:31:02 UTC 2014
>
> I've been doing a bit of attributing to post boxes of late, and have a
> couple of queries:
>
> * Around Maidenhead a wall post box mounted in a brick pillar is a
> fairly common type. I'm at a loss as to how these might be tagged using
> post_box:type. A good example is SL6 4, which is tagged as a pillar,
> but according to Post Hoc is a wall box
> http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postboxes/boxinfo.cgi?ref=SL6+4. See this
> box on Flickr
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirechurches/2558826678/
I have always used post_box:type=wall for these, since the post box is literally embedded in something else.
Even if in these cases the 'wall' is rather short.
> * Old hexagonal Penfold postboxes come in different types
> (according to
> wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar_box#Penfolds>), but there
> are also nearly as many 1990s replicas as the real thing. To date
> there are only 3 or 4 post boxes tagged post_box:design=penfold , but
> it would be nice to hunt down a few more and then work out which are
> which.
I think I have used note=hexagonal_pillar or similar for the few I have come across.
I agree a post_box:design=X is better for the more interesting post boxes - specially when you know what type they are!
<learns about Penfold>
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