[Talk-GB] Quarterly Projects Update

[pmailkeey .]

On 3 April 2015 at 13:49, David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk> wrote:

> On 03/04/15 13:43, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
>
>> Should everything be
>> amenity=post_office, or would it be better to have different tags for
>> sorting offices / distribution warehouses and also for parcel
>> collection points?
>>
>
> Different.  In particular, if it is not open to the public, I would not
> consider it to be an amenity.
>
> Also, although privatised, post offices are semi-governmental
> institutions, whereas the rest are parts of a courier service.
>
>
>
Clearly post office is wrong unless it offers post office services.
Delivery offices are open to the public.


On 3 April 2015 at 14:11, SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> A while back I did have a go at doing delivery offices (using
> amenity=delivery_office) because a) these are often in funny places and b)
> finding the local one which is the parcel collection point was non-trivial
> (so useful map feature).
>
>
It should be possible to trawl OSM for "delivery office" and find out what
the current most popular labelling arrangements are. Ideally, we should
look at say the top 5 five most popular and be guided by that.



On 3 April 2015 at 14:41, John Aldridge <jpsa at jjdash.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> One road has signs saying
>
>    ST. BEDE'S GARDENS (full stop and apostrophe)
>    ST. BEDES GARDENS (just the full stop)
>
>
I'll look into this.


> --
> Cheers,
> John
>
>

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