Mark, No, I was not planning on converting post boxes to the 'correct' operator value regularly, but that sounds like a good idea.
Martijn, I have very little opinion in which value of operator should be used, as long as they are consistent. I think that basing the 'preferred' values on what can be found printed on the post boxes, however, is a good idea. This methodology produces the following: * UPS * FedEx * DHL * United States Postal Service This system makes the most sense to me, as it reduces the amount of possible confusion. DHL, as a matter of fact, can't be expanded, because it is the initials of the three founders: Adrian *D*alsey, Larry *H*illblom, and Robert *L*ynn. "United Parcel Service" is rarely seen on post boxes - only the text "ups" is. FedEx is the same. The company rebranded from "Federal Express" to "FedEx" in January 2000, making "FedEx" the correct value to use. For the United States Postal Service, the text "United States Postal Service" is always displayed on the post boxes, which seems like a good argument to go with the expanded version. I think that the above values are the best, but would be happy to adopt any other values. Regarding a MapRoulette challenge, how would that work? Would all post boxes be converted to "United States Postal Service" before or after the challenge, or would me changing operator tags be completely unnecessary? Clifford, Does Nominatim consider "operator:wikipedia" and "operator:wikidata" tags? If so, I think that that would be an issue with Nominatim, and not the tagging, correct? I agree with you and Brian about "wikidata" and "wikipedia" tags being wrong, but I think that "operator:wikidata" and "operator:wikipedia" should be fine. Jmapb, Good points! Many post boxes do not have the operator value, and a community review of those would be a great idea (if people have the time for that). Thanks for pointing out all of those variations of the same operator! I did not know that all of them existed, and will definitely convert all to the "correct" value if I manage to go ahead with a changeset. Finally, should I also "fix" UPS and FedEx boxes as well in the changeset? It would be nice for all post boxes to be consistently tagged. Thank you, Leif Rasmussen
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