[Talk-GB] Next quarters project: Post Offices

[Ed Loach]

Is there any agreement how to map hosted post offices (one of the outreach services), such as one held in a pub one morning a week or a community hall on two mornings a week?

 

Ed

 

From: Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) <robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com> 
Sent: 02 April 2018 19:10
To: talk-gb <Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Next quarters project: Post Offices

 

On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 18:23 Rob Nickerson, <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com <mailto:rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> > wrote:

Robert Whitaker has an up to date data reference and also has a fabulous set of tools <http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/>  to update the data in OSM and for measuring progress.

I've put together some mapping notes at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/mapping-notes.html with suggestions for how to use the tools.

 

One thing to watch is that -- as Rob noted -- a significant number of Post Office branches have moved in the last few years; but sometimes only a few doors down the road. This means some of the 'matches' in the tool that are made by location proximity only will be incorrect. 

 

So as well as ~4000 more branches to map, there are also ~7000 existing matches to verify.

 

I think it would be useful to use the ID numbers (ref:pol_id=*) to indicate confirmed matches -- so I'd encourage people to add them to proximity matches in the tool that they know are correct (e.g. by local knowledge, ground survey, or deduction from the POL address data / other OSM-compatible sources), but not to those where there is some uncertainty. Non-ID-matched branches can then be seen as flags for mappers to check out/verify.

 

There are also ~900 mapped amenity=post_office objects that aren't matched to an official branch location, which could do with being checked. Most will probably be former branches that have now closed.

 

If anyone has any suggestions for improvements to the tools please do get in touch.

 

Robert.

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