Remember that features in OpenStreetMap are not only useful for finding those features.
If you know a region has the pickup lockers all mapped, you could do analysis such as density of their locations (do they favour more expensive neighbourhoods, or how accessible are they by traffic-free cycle routes, and so forth). You could even start looking at history of where they've been removed or how they've increased in number. This is not so possible by the list you select from when making a purchase. Gregory. On Wed, 1 Jan 2020, 12:43 Philip Barnes, <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > They are certainly not post boxes, I have used amenity=vending_machine, > vending=parcel_pickup which is a combination that probably came from > asking on #osm. > > > For example my local one https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5978482863 > > https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Pna indicates the taging has a fair amount > of useage. > > HTH > Phil (trigpoint) > > > > On Wed, 2020-01-01 at 12:18 +0000, Dan Glover wrote: > > Please forgive me if this is has been debated previously - I'm new > > here > > and having trouble finding a searchable archive for this list. > > > > A local mapper has added an Amazon "Hub Locker", tagged as > > amenity=post_box. This causes it to flag as an anomaly when > > comparing > > against Royal Mail data. My view is this is not a "post box" since > > it > > forms part of delivery rather than collection arrangements. > > > > However I can see there may be some benefit in mapping such > > facilities, > > albeit anyone wanting to use it will need to make advance > > arrangements > > with Amazon and chose from a list of locations. This is a different > > situation to Royal Mail where there is no official "post box finder" > > and > > one is at liberty to use any convenient box at any time. Searching > > the > > OSM Wiki doesn't seem to provide any specific guidance but hints > > that > > Amazon might be persuaded to contribute the locations directly, > > since > > they are apparently both consumers and contributors to OSM. > > > > Arguably parcel drop-off points for Hermes and so forth might be > > suitable for inclusion, though they're not a stand-alone feature but > > part of facilities at a premises and again require advance action by > > the > > user to select . > > > > Is there existing policy/guidance/consensus and if not, what is the > > best > > way to proceed? > > > > > > Dan > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-GB mailing list > > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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