[Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

[Mark Goodge]

On 03/05/2018 11:25, SK53 wrote:
> Can we please avoid changing the meaning of post office by extending it 
> to courier offices, and restrict it to those places which offer not only 
> a full service mail offering (aka Universal Postal Service), but the 
> traditional other services available at post offices (some banking, 
> government forms, etc). Extending the meaning of the tag would make OSM 
> data immediately intrinsically less useful in cities where courier 
> offices exist. Such a change would a) require every post office to be 
> suitably tagged with an indication of which service it belongs to; and 
> b) require every data consumer to change.

I agree. "Post Office" has a specific legal meaning in the UK, and 
applying the tag to things that are not actually Post Offices would be 
confusing at the very least.

I think it would be helpful to have a suitable tag for things like 
Amazon lockers and Hermes drop-off points. But they're not Post Offices. 
They're not even close to being Post Offices. They fulfil a different 
role, and need to be identified as such.

Mark