On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, at 10:03 AM, John Aldridge wrote: > On 16/01/2014 09:34, Pierre Riteau wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, at 05:59 PM, John Aldridge wrote: > >> On 15/01/2014 17:49, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > >>> On 15 January 2014 16:03, John Aldridge <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> If I believed there was a snowflake in hell's chance of getting > >>>> amenity=post_depot objects displayed on the default map, I'd be more > >>>> sympathetic, but as it is I think I'd prefer something like... > >>> > >>> If everyone followed that reasoning, there would never be any new tags > >>> created! Besides, deliberately tagging known-not-to-be-a-post-office > >>> objects as post offices is incorrectly tagging for the renderer. > >> > >> I do understand your position, but I don't think that's a fair criticism > >> of mine. These things *are* post offices by the definition in the Wiki, > >> so I don't think it's unreasonable to tag them that way. > > > > Then maybe the definition in the Wiki should be modified to correspond > > to what most people will intuitively see as a post office? > > > > I would say that a post office is not only a place where you can send > > *or* collect letters and parcels, but rather a place where you can send > > letters and parcels (including buying stamps and weighting your > > parcels), *and possibly* collect letters and parcels. > > Heh... that definition excludes 'regular' (Post Office Ltd) post > offices, though! If you try to send a letter at one of those, they tell > you to put it in the (Royal Mail) post box outside.
I am surprised because the Post Office branches that I use (clearly labelled Post Office, not Royal Mail) do keep my mail for sending after buying postage stamps. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
