Am 25.04.2017 um 11:21 schrieb John Willis:
If I search for a supermarket and you send me to a 7-11, you failed.
Post offices have different scopes in different places, ways we
usually separate by tag, because we separate "duckiness" by tag. This
varies by region, so we need a way to represent both, and we have
existing tags as well.
[...] This is not something left to "operator". Brand is for
separating similar items - a Burger King vs a McDonalds - not to
separate steakhouses from a butcher shop. We are deciding where to
draw the lines on scope, like convenience stores, markets,
supermarkets, and malls.
I partly agree but when I tag Walmart or Trader Joe's as a supermarket's
brand that carries a clear expectation towards the assortment of the store.
The sticky point seems to be that because nationalized post services
and commercial courier services are available in different places
*beyond* the traditional offices - buying stamps at a gas station, box
shops that ship via post and courier systems, etc, that the "amenity"
of a location that offers post/courier service is blurred in many
places, or the post''s importance in some places has dwindled,
relegating it to be a courier. We should be figuring out how to handle
assigning the "amenity" of those services (similar to how a hotel has
a workout room, but that doesn't make the hotel a gym) to other kinds
of businesses, in a way where we can have multiple values. A hotel has
parking, a pool, gym, etc, but it is foremost a "hotel" with various
amenities. Having a dedicated courier or post office tag isn't so much
of an issue - in many places with a traditional post system, it is
still different enough to warrant separate tags. it's adding these
courier/post options to other businesses or shops that needs to be
worked out. Mashing post offices and courier services together is not
going to solve that issue nor improve OSM tagging in any appreciable way.
[...]
Having a tagging system to add that onto another shop sounds like that
is what people are looking for, if I understand correctly.
At least that is part of it. Along the convenience store supermarket
analogy maybe we need something like the amenity=post_office for the
traditional ones and an amenity=shipping_services (just a working title)
for everything else, not just couriers. That would work at least for the
dedicated shops. For the in-shop services provided in kiosks etc. it
might be a different tagging.
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