[Talk-GB] Royal Mail post-box finder - error in results

[Dan Glover]

On 2021-08-16 14:11, John Murrell wrote:

> If you search the Royal Mail post-box finder for BN18 9LY the postbox
> inside the Amberley Museum is missing from the results though the one
> outside at Houghton Bridge by the station is shown.

> The post box inside the museum is interesting in that while it is only
> accessible to the public when the museum is open Wed to Sun (after you
> have paid the entrance fee) it has collections 6 days a week !

BN18 1346 is apparently cleared by staff and items stamped 'Posted at 
Amberley Museum' before being passed to Royal Mail.

> I guess the box is mostly used by museum staff and the odd visitor who
> feels like sending a postcard.

So it would seem. Is it strictly amenity:post_box? It is indeed "A box 
for the reception of mail" but not a public facility. There are similar 
examples (many of which are plain wooden boxes) in semi-public places 
such as hotels, colleges, hospitals. RM collects, indirectly, but 
they're not listed on "Near You". On a sort of micro-level they are an 
amenity to those who are "on the inside" but they're unlikely to be 
useful to anyone else. Some were included in the RM 2013 dataset, 
however.

> There are at least 4 other preserved boxes in the museum - it is not
> clear how these shoudl be tagged and who the 'operator' is (the museum
> ??)

Is a collection made from these boxes? There are significant 
concentrations of old post boxes in a few places, but trying to show 
them all on OSM may not be sensible for a number of reasons. More 
generally, would individual items be tagged within a museum?


Dan