On Fri, 2018-05-04 at 12:52 +0100, Lester Caine wrote: > On 04/05/18 12:28, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > > Or do people think we should use amenity=post_office for them with > > some other tagging used to differentiate things? If we did want to > > use > > other tagging to differentiate, then operator=* wouldn't work, as > > most > > Post Office branches are run by third parties. network=* or brand=* > > could do, but it would be complicated to use either on objects > > which > > are tagged with both amenity=post_office and e.g. shop=convenience, > > since we wouldn't know which part the tags were referring to. > > Our local post office is now situated in a local supermarket while > the > main postbox is still located outside it's previous home. Post > Office > hours are shorter than the opening for the shop although some > services > are available full time which adds to the fun tagging it. In > addition > two other local shops are drop-off points for other other carriers > with > one also a collection point for held deliveries. The published > details > for some of these service points is already wrong but trying to add > a > comprehensive set of tags covering everything is I think wishfull > thinking? Especially when the shop handles several courier services? > This is an area where secondary databases should be linked to > provide > the fine detail and just a generic tag with an ID to access that > data. > Trying to map all the secondary data is silly, but it's not helped > when > postoffice.co.uk don't list the independent post offices in there > search > results! According to them Broadway does not have a post office ;)
In these situations I’d probably add a separate amenity=post_office node *inside* the shop area. Then both the shop and the post office can have separate tagging for their opening hours, operator, network, etc. Philip
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