[Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

[Michael Collinson]

At the risk of being pedantic, but would a "network" tag, similar to bus 
routes, not be more appropriate?

Here in Sweden, the post office system is now Post Nord, network=Post 
Nord, but post offices are frequently inside and operated by 
supermarkets, e.g. operator=ICA. These outlets often handle DHL and 
other services that might also be considered as postal networks, 
network=Post Nord;DHL

Mike


On 2018-05-03 11:15, Brian Prangle wrote:
> Hi Robert
>
> If an operator tag is added to post_office tags then your comparison 
> tool would be OK
>
> Regards
>
> Brian
>
> On 3 May 2018 at 10:08, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) 
> <robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com 
> <mailto:robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 2 May 2018 at 19:08, David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk
>     <mailto:forums at david-woolley.me.uk>> wrote:
>     > On 02/05/18 18:52, ael wrote:
>     >>
>     >> I am confused:-)  How should a Royal mail local delivery office be
>     >> tagged? It seems that it is not amenity=post_office. I notice that
>     >> I have used post_depot once some time ago, but that doesn't
>     seem to be
>     >> in the wiki (or in the presets for josm). Yet I am sure that I
>     got it
>     >> from somewhere. Not that it seems very natural.
>     >
>     > I'm fairly sure this came up a couple of months ago and the
>     answer was
>     > amenity=post_depot; operator=Royal Mail.  It's not, in
>     principle, different
>     > from Hermes or TNT.
>
>     That's certainly what I'd use. I think there's a good case for tagging
>     customer-facing shop-like outlets of courier firms as
>     amenity=post_office since they're places from which you can send
>     stuff. But for the large warehouse-style sorting/distribution centres
>     I think something else is needed. amenity=post_depot seems a good
>     choice to me. It has over 400 uses worldwide, of which over 300 are in
>     the UK.
>
>     The legitimate use of amenity=post_office for non-Post Office Ltd
>     branches creates a slight issue for my comparison tool. I've got some
>     heuristics to account for some sets of objects based on name,
>     operator, and brand tagging. See:
>     http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/osm-unmatched.html#non-pol
>     <http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/osm-unmatched.html#non-pol>
>
>     Robert.
>
>     -- 
>     Robert Whittaker
>
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