Are these additional services legally obliged, or are they offered as a
result of a commercial agreement?
Perhaps designation=uk_post_office may be a useful addition to indicate
that the legally-obliged services are available at this location. Some
services are only available at what used to be called "Crown Post
Offices", so designation=uk_crown_post_office could be used here.
The other stuff, like currency exchange, is almost certainly a
commercial agreement, with no obligation on a particular post office to
offer this service. In this case I would add currency_exchange=yes for
example, so one can see where it is, and is not, available.
This would separate the legally required functions (including buying a
stamp etc) from the "options".
Colin
On 2018-05-03 12:14, Philip Barnes wrote:
> I would avoid using amenity=post_office for anything other than a proper post
> office.
>
> The term post office is much more than a place to send parcels or letters.
>
> In the UK a post office offers
> Banking services
> I can tax my car
> I can apply for a passport
> I can collect my pension
> Exchange currency
> Probably lots of other things that I've not thought of.
>
> Whilst post depot is useful for collecting things that an individual has
> ordered, sending stuff by courier is a business service. DHL will not be
> interested in sending my Christmas cards and certainly not for the price
> Royal mail charges.
>
> Phil (trigpoint)
>
> On 3 May 2018 10:45:57 BST, Michael Collinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> At the risk of being pedantic, but would a "network" tag, similar to bus
> routes, not be more appropriate?
>
> Here in Sweden, the post office system is now Post Nord, network=Post Nord,
> but post offices are frequently inside and operated by supermarkets, e.g.
> operator=ICA. These outlets often handle DHL and other services that might
> also be considered as postal networks, network=Post Nord;DHL
>
> Mike
> On 2018-05-03 11:15, Brian Prangle wrote:
>
> Hi Robert
> If an operator tag is added to post_office tags then your comparison tool
> would be OK
> Regards
> Brian
>
> On 3 May 2018 at 10:08, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2 May 2018 at 19:08, David Woolley <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 02/05/18 18:52, ael wrote:
>>>
>>> I am confused:-) How should a Royal mail local delivery office be
>>> tagged? It seems that it is not amenity=post_office. I notice that
>>> I have used post_depot once some time ago, but that doesn't seem to be
>>> in the wiki (or in the presets for josm). Yet I am sure that I got it
>>> from somewhere. Not that it seems very natural.
>>
>> I'm fairly sure this came up a couple of months ago and the answer was
>> amenity=post_depot; operator=Royal Mail. It's not, in principle, different
>> from Hermes or TNT.
>
> That's certainly what I'd use. I think there's a good case for tagging
> customer-facing shop-like outlets of courier firms as
> amenity=post_office since they're places from which you can send
> stuff. But for the large warehouse-style sorting/distribution centres
> I think something else is needed. amenity=post_depot seems a good
> choice to me. It has over 400 uses worldwide, of which over 300 are in
> the UK.
>
> The legitimate use of amenity=post_office for non-Post Office Ltd
> branches creates a slight issue for my comparison tool. I've got some
> heuristics to account for some sets of objects based on name,
> operator, and brand tagging. See:
> http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postoffice/osm-unmatched.html#non-pol [1]
>
> Robert.
>
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