[Talk-GB] Amazon pickup lockers - how to represent (if at all)?

Dan Glover dan at dgsys.co.uk
Thu Feb 13 16:29:44 UTC 2020


Sorry for the long-delayed follow-up.

On 2020-01-01 12:43, Philip Barnes wrote:
> They are certainly not post boxes, I have used amenity=vending_machine,
> vending=parcel_pickup which is a combination that probably came from
> asking on #osm.
> For example my local one https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5978482863

Thank you.  I was, finally, about to update along similar lines, and 
also add a couple in my immediate area, but...

> https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Pna indicates the taging has a fair amount
> of useage.

Indeed there are several so it would be best to follow the pattern, and 
I now see this is documented at 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Parcel_lockers_in_the_United_Kingdom

On the way to "vending machine" I discovered there's button in iD which 
fills the tags.  Good.

I ran a query and found there are also two nodes in the UK with 
amenity=parcel_pickup.  These don't seem to conform to accepted practice 
but without further information it's probably wrong to amend them.

There is also a proposal for amenity=parcel_lockers 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Parcel_lockers_and_parcel_postbox. 
  This has been used twice in the Glasgow area and a few times in Europe, 
but not as widely as the existing convention.

So I've learnt quite a bit from your (and others')  response.  Many 
thanks.


Dan



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