[Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project: Post Offices

[Philip Withnall]

On Fri, 2018-05-04 at 12:52 +0100, Lester Caine wrote:
> 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 ;)

In these situations I’d probably add a separate amenity=post_office
node *inside* the shop area. Then both the shop and the post office can
have separate tagging for their opening hours, operator, network, etc.

Philip
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