[Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Fri May 4 11:52:06 UTC 2018


On 04/05/18 12:28, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
> Or do people think we should use amenity=post_office for them with
> some other tagging used to differentiate things? If we did want to use
> other tagging to differentiate, then operator=* wouldn't work, as most
> Post Office branches are run by third parties. network=* or brand=*
> could do, but it would be complicated to use either on objects which
> are tagged with both amenity=post_office and e.g. shop=convenience,
> since we wouldn't know which part the tags were referring to.

Our local post office is now situated in a local supermarket while the 
main postbox is still located outside it's previous home. Post Office 
hours are shorter than the opening for the shop although some services 
are available full time which adds to the fun tagging it. In addition 
two other local shops are drop-off points for other other carriers with 
one also a collection point for held deliveries. The published details 
for some of these service points is already wrong but trying to add a 
comprehensive set of tags covering everything is I think wishfull 
thinking? Especially when the shop handles several courier services? 
This is an area where secondary databases should be linked to provide 
the fine detail and just a generic tag with an ID to access that data. 
Trying to map all the secondary data is silly, but it's not helped when 
postoffice.co.uk don't list the independent post offices in there search 
results! According to them Broadway does not have a post office ;)

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