[Talk-GB] Voting on a tag for parcel lockers

[SK53]

Although the vending machine tag is a little eccentric, it's well
established. It's not clear at all that this actually improves anything
either way.

There are plenty of other tags where the current name is also slightly at
variance with expectations or other meanings: highway=unclassified (minor
roads), landuse=meadow (farmland used for pasture or grass crops),
tourism=chalet (self-catering tourist accommodation) come to mind. It may
grate, but has rarely impeded OSM.

Jerry

On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 at 13:09, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) <
robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> FYI, voting has just been opened on a new tag for parcel lockers for
> picking up and returning parcels. Common brands in the UK include
> Amazon, InPost and Hermes.
>
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/amenity%3Dparcel_machine
>
> The proposed tag is amenity=parcel_machine, which isn't a term I've
> ever heard used in the UK, and I don't think is particularly
> descriptive for these objects. It's not entirely clear to me from the
> discussion why there was a late change from the originally proposed
> amenity=parcel_locker(s).
>
> I think it would be good to get some wider input into the
> discussion/voting.
>
> Robert.
>
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