[Talk-GB] Rendering of old phoneboxes (was: Mistagging of old telephone boxes)

[ajt1047 at gmail.com]

On 24/12/2017 01:12, Craig Wallace wrote:
> It would be good to have some better tags for phoneboxes (which may or 
> may not actually contain a working phone). The phonebox is often a 
> distinctive landmark, especially the classic red ones, and many are 
> now listed buildings.
>
...
> Why not a specific tag for telephone_box or something?
> It would also be useful to tag that it is a classic red phone box, 
> even if you don't know what exact model it is.

Hi,
I've been thinking for a while about how to render these, and after 
noticing how many were now tagged with something, have had a go at 
rendering current and former red phone boxes like this one:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1210961179
http://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=18&lat=52.970323&lon=-1.459425

There will, I'm sure, be errors (for a start it doesn't exclude Hull, 
where there are no red phone boxes) and it will obviously show the wrong 
use where someone's used an old photo rather than a current survey to 
say that a phone box is still there.  The code's here:

https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/SomeoneElse-style/blob/6efbd8138581c0dc079f4f238786dc3b82e90fbf/style.lua#L800

That's based on the values in OSM as of about a week ago.

Are there any "current uses" of phoneboxes that I'm missing beyond 
library, defibrillator, tourist info, atm, bicycle repair station, 
disused and (obviously) telephone?

Best Regards,

Andy