> I would use amenity=courier for this, maybe a subtag which says something about scope (local, regional, national, international) and about kind of shipped goods (parcel, letters/documents, medicine, etc.).
The scope of area of service will be a very helpful subtag, may be we could decide one which could be reused for other features(like taxi service) too. cheers Kelvin On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Tobias Wrede <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 16.05.2017 um 12:20 schrieb Warin: > > On 16-May-17 06:01 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > The tag in the first proposal wasn't chosen badly, it was insufficiently > defined. Office is not a good tag for the public facing frontend with > counters etc. > > > I disagree. > > Shops frequently have counters etc for the public facing front end. > > Some offices do too... lawyers, accountants, insurance, etc... have a counter > for customers to arrive at. > > Should all these things be lumped in to the key amenity??? I think not! > > Office is the correct place for it. *"A place predominantly selling > services." *Nothing here about how it is configured. > > I generaly agree with an office being *"a place **predominantly selling > services"* but maybe the definition is not specific enough. Let's have a > look at some examples. Laundries, dry cleaners, hairdressers, massage > shops, tattoo parlours, money lenders, lottery shops, ticket shops, > copyshops all predominantly sell services, yet they are all classified > being shops. Banks and post offices are amenities. I would say a courier > outlet is much more like a laundry or a copyshop than like a lawyer or > inscurance. On the other hand it is very close to a post office. So amenity > and shop come to my mind way before an office. > > In another post Andrew Davidson has correctly identified 'Post Office' and > they are, I would, think to most people around the world viewed differently > from couriers. > > I will quote it here to save you looking:*The Universal Postal Union is an > international organisation > that coordinates postal policies among its 192 member countries. > **One of the requirements of membership is that countries must nominate > the "operator or operators officially designated to operate postal services" > on their territory > (**http://www.upu.int/uploads/tx_sbdownloader/questionnaireNotificationOfTheEntityResponsibleCircularLetterEn.pdf > > <http://www.upu.int/uploads/tx_sbdownloader/questionnaireNotificationOfTheEntityResponsibleCircularLetterEn.pdf>**). > * > > Well, times are changing and I wouldn't use UPU for any definition on our > side. Would you call a DHL parcel outlet a post office? DHL being a brand > of Deutsche Post is the German operator officially designated to operate > postal services as defined by UPU. > > While a post office seems to still be a certain institution in many > countries in many others it is not. I cannot even recall when I have been > to one the last time. All these other available places that have sprung up > over the past years (couriers, postal shops inside shops, private mail > operators etc.) take up most of the post office functions. So I am very > reluctant to treat them any differently. > > Tobi > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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