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> On 15. May 2017, at 14:46, John Willis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > "Tag" level - a business that does something else ( a convenience store, a > strawberry farm, a department store) that offers courier service in some > manner. Be it local delivery or international shipping. > > "Retail" level: a shop that is just for people to come in and mail stuff or > pick up something. You see this a lot in the US (the UPS Store) they might > serve several different courtiers as one (a Box shop). > > Commercial Level: a local or regional distribution hub with a retail service > window/office. Tons of delivery trucks and a big warehouse that manages the > local package flow. > > Commercial warehouse level - regional sort facilities and staging offices. > These massive shipping distribution warehouses are private and gigantic. > > A tiny courier service my just be a guy and his bike. > > It may be a box shop shipping all services. > > It may be a regional courier with a single commercial distribution hub where > you can still stop by and send packages. > > It may be a giant sort facility that is private. > > Amenity=* doesn't really cover any of these (unless it is a service offered > at a larger business, like a courier window at the airport) and office=* > covers *even less* - it would cover the corporate offices of these services - > but as I understand office, would not be used to tag any of the other > buildings. > > You also want to tag some information that is helpful, but not perishable. A > soft facility is always there. A shop that ships your purchases often does so > for a long time. The exact services, pricing, method, times, etc probably > often changes *a lot*. I don't think that is worth mapping - but mapping that > a shop can let you pickup a UPS delivery or let you ship a DHL package at a > convenience store is worth mapping +1, these cases should all be addressed and differentiated. Additionally it could be needed to separately address letters and parcels. The proposals I have seen so far didn't solve this in any way, they didn't even describe a subset of these, but rather proposed simply a new word/tag without sufficiently defining or differentiating it. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
