My personal preference would be "locker" for a lockable cabinet for luggage, or for street clothes at an exercise facility. "Lockbox" I would tend to think of as a more-secure enclosure, such as a safety deposit box at a bank.
On June 24, 2014 12:32:57 PM CDT, Michael Reichert <naka...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, > > over a year ago I was indoor-mapping the central train station of > Heilbronn, Germany and looked for a tag to tag a locker/lockbox like > this: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schlie%C3%9Ff%C3%A4cher_-_Bahnhof_Neumarkt_Oberpfalz.jpg > > After reading a discussion at talk-de from October 2010 [1], I decided > to tag them amenity=lockbox. [2] In that discussion they decided to > use > the amenity key instead of tourism key. > > At the moment Constantin Müller (aka ubahnverleih) and I think about a > consistent tagging of this amenities. At the moment there are 9 > objects > tagged amenity=lockbox and 30 objects tagged amenity=locker [3, 4]. > Because there is few difference between both tags I would like to ask > the native English speakers at this list to answer me following > question: > > What word describes a locker/lockbox at a train station (see linked > image above) better? Locker or lockbox? In the discussion at talk-de > Martin Koppenhöfer wrote that a lockbox can be found at a bank (for > money, gold etc.). But he was not sure. [5] > > Best regards > > Michael > > > [1] German: > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2010-October/076965.html > [2] > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/215036986#map=18/49.14281/9.20764 > [3] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=locker#overview > [4] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=lockbox#overview > [5] German: > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2010-October/076976.html -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
