[Talk-GB] [talk-gb] Minicab offices - how to tag?

[Philip Barnes]

In most of the UK they are called private hire, not sure why Londoners calls them mincabs. 

Office=taxi makes sense.

Phil (trigpoint) 

On Monday, 20 September 2021, Michael Booth wrote:
> office=taxi has over 200 uses so that's probably the best one to use, as 
> they are not really shops.
> 
> There's also 35 uses of shop=taxi in the UK, mostly in London - 
> including some duplication with office=taxi.
> 
> Only mention I can find on the wiki is here: 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:amenity%3Dtaxi#Taxi_shops.3F 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:amenity%3Dtaxi#Taxi_shops.3F> 
> - so might be worth creating an office=taxi page and getting all these 
> taxi/minicab offices tagged in the same way in OSM.
> 
> On 20/09/2021 17:21, Edward Bainton wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I can't find a wiki article for the place in big cities where you walk 
> > up to order a minicab.
> >
> > tag-info has
> > 10 * office=minicab;
> > 4 * shop=minicab
> >
> > That seems very few, so I wonder if they're being tagged some other way?
> >
> > If those are the choices, I prefer "shop" as "place where you walk up 
> > for service", even though it's a "minicab office" in everyday language.
> >
> > Any experience or views? Thanks,
> >
> > Edward
> >
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