Because they are labeled "United States Postal Service" with big stickers, that's how I've been tagging them.
-jack -- Typos courtesy of fancy auto spell technology On August 28, 2018 4:02:40 PM EDT, Jmapb <jm...@gmx.com> wrote: >On 8/28/2018 3:31 PM, Leif Rasmussen wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> A couple of days ago, I noticed that different post boxes in the >> United States had different ways of tagging that they were part of >the >> USPS system. Roughly 60% had "operator"="USPS", 40% >> "operator"="United States Postal Service", and about 15 similar to >> "operator"="United States Post Services" or "United States Post >> Office". I wanted to make them all the same, so I asked on the OSMUS > >> Slack group about the tags, and most people supported "USPS". I then > >> proceeded to upload a changeset manually converting 1500 "United >> States Postal Service" or similar to "USPS". I should have waited >> longer before uploading. >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/62020302 >> https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Boq >> All post boxes in the USPS system now have "operator"="USPS". >> After uploading, people expressed concern about the choice of "USPS" >> over "United States Postal Service". The wiki states that >> abbreviations should be expanded, "USPS" could be confused with other > >> agencies >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Power_Squadrons>, and >> this counted as an automated edit, which should have had better >> planning with the OSM community. >> I would now like to propose converting all post boxes with the tag >> "operator"="USPS" to "operator"="United States Postal Service". I >> would also like to add the tag "operator:wikidata"="Q668687" to the >> post boxes that currently have "operator"="USPS". Please reply with >> any feedback or concerns you have with this proposal. > >Thanks for looping us in, Leif. Haven't made it to the slack group yet, > >but when I noticed that change I thought to myself "thank the Lord, >it's >over!" Every time I've tagged a post box I've managed to convince >myself >that I did it wrong the previous time. So I rotated between "USPS", >"usps" and "United States Postal Service" and figured I'd get around to > >fixing them when my brain settled down. Seeing someone else take the >initiative was a relief, despite the understandable grumbling about >automated edits. > >Now that it's done, I'm in favor of making an exception to the >no-abbreviations rule for a fixed set of couriers, so sticking with >USPS. It's easy to tag and read, and I don't think it's truly >ambiguous... if the United States Power Squadrons start a courier >service, *they* should be tagged with the fully expanded name. > >Another reason is that there are plenty of private company post boxes, >and I'd like the tagging style to be consistent as possible, with the >commonly-used compact versions of their names. I feel operator=UPS, >operator=FedEx, operator=DHL will be easier to write, maintain, and >read >than operator=United Parcel Service, operator=Federal Express, >operator=.. well, I still can't figure out what DHL actually stands >for. > >Also -- not an issue for postboxes per se, but I've found occasion to >tag some some shops with the shipping companies they offer, and the >idea >of a semicolon-seperated list of fully expanded shipping company names >makes me weary. > >(No problem with adding the operator:wikidata tag.) > >Thanks, Jason
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