On 2 April 2015 at 10:42, Brian Prangle <[email protected]> wrote: > So, on to our next project: all things delivery-related > > This could be Royal Mail postboxes (still loads to do); Royal Mail delivery > offices and sorting offices; delivery areas/gates to factories and town > centre shopping malls; maxheights and maxweights on roads; courier depots; > distribution warehouses; new internet shopping parcel lockers (see wiki > entry); there's a new parcel-collection service based around mainline > stations called Doddle.it; airfreight facilities; railway marshalling yards; > secure lorry parks; port/dock facilities and anything else you can think of.
For anyone interested in mapping Royal Mail Post Boxes, or Post Office Ltd Post Office branches, you may find the tools I run at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postboxes/ useful. Amongst other things, these compare the current OSM data to some official lists of boxes and branches from the two organisations. Unfortunately, neither organisation has given us permission to use their data in OSM, so we can't directly add any missing objects -- but the maps you can view at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postboxes/ will show up places that it might be beneficial to survey. While I'm here, one thing it might be good to discuss in relation to this project is how best to tag some of the different types of delivery/collection infrastructure. Should everything be amenity=post_office, or would it be better to have different tags for sorting offices / distribution warehouses and also for parcel collection points? Robert. -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
