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

[Tom Crocker]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2021, 13:16 SK53, <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>

I think it has impeded me (landuse=meadow being a good example) and is
likely to impede other new users, Brits in particular, because it causes
uncertainty about what the correct tag is and therefore inertia.

Tom
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