Hi Dave, TL;DR: amenity = sorting_office seems fine, but only used in UK at the moment and undocumented.
--- I have seen : (same as you said) amenity = sorting_office https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8129336 21 from https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=sorting_office mostly in big cities in UK: https://overpass-turbo.eu/?w=%22amenity%22%3D%22sorting_office%22+global&R corresponding to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_centre "The Royal Mail operates a network of 38 mail centres. Each mail centre serves a large geographically defined area of the United Kingdom and together they form the backbone network of the mail distribution operation." "Mail is exchanged between the mail centres and then forwarded to one of 1,356 delivery offices". I understand then the UK system as: 38 amenity = sorting_office ==> 1356 amenity = post_office I don't know what a "post_depot" is, but it does seem more like a intermediate sorting/delivery office, maybe for parcels? amenity = post_depot https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/22883979 https://overpass-turbo.eu/?w=%22amenity%22%3D%22post_depot%22+global&R (but also a strange outlier) post_office=sorting_center 18 from https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/post_office=sorting_center all instances strangely in one place: https://overpass-turbo.eu/?w=%22post_office%22%3D%22sorting_center%22+global&R -- althio On 22 February 2017 at 20:56, Dave F <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > A place where letters & parcels are sent to be sorted so they can then be > delivered? > > In the Britain I think they'd normally be called a sorting office. but > there's only 21 & 2 for postal_sorting_office from tag info > > Is post_depot the same thing? (313 wordwide/212 GB) > > Either tag doesn't seem a great number. Is there a more popular one in use? > > DaveF > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
