[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project - postboxes

Pierre Riteau pierre at pierreriteau.name
Mon Apr 13 22:59:14 UTC 2015


I have followed this proposal too. Example for a "Franked mail only"
post box:

mail:meter = yes
mail:stamped = no

On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, at 03:19 PM, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
> On 13 April 2015 at 12:22, Brian Prangle <bprangle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Came across 2 postboxes today, side-by-side, one with "1st Class" and one
> > with "2nd class". Two wall-mounted  box refs so not 2 apertures on the same
> > pillar. I couldn't see anything in the wiki on how to treat these so I
> > tagged them  postbox:restriction= 1st  class mail only and 2nd class mail
> > only. Is there something somewhere already established or do we need a
> > consensus on how to tag these?
> 
> I don't recall any recent specific discussion about this, and hence
> don't think there's a definite consensus. But if you look at
> http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postboxes/osm-tag-keys.html it would
> seem that the most popular method would be to add mail:meter=yes/no,
> mail:first_class=yes/no, etc. This would be consistent with the
> suggestions in the abandoned proposal at
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Extend_post_box .
> But there are also a few instances of mailtypes=* as well, and even
> fewer of class=* in use.
> 
> Robert.
> 
> -- 
> Robert Whittaker
> 
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