As a US English speaker, I'd call those items in your photo lockers. My 40+ year old American Heritage Dictionary says, among other things that a locker is "an enclosure that may be locked, especially one used by a person at a gymnasium or public place, for the safekeeping of clothing and valuables."
To me a lockbox would be a much smaller thing for storing documents and cash and might even be portable. Oddly, either I am blind or "lockbox" is missing from both my American Heritage Dictionary and my much older Oxford English Dictionary. -Tod On Jun 24, 2014, at 10:32 AM, Michael Reichert wrote: > Hi, > > over a year ago I was indoor-mapping the central train station of > Heilbronn, Germany and looked for a tag to tag a locker/lockbox like this: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schlie%C3%9Ff%C3%A4cher_-_Bahnhof_Neumarkt_Oberpfalz.jpg > > After reading a discussion at talk-de from October 2010 [1], I decided > to tag them amenity=lockbox. [2] In that discussion they decided to use > the amenity key instead of tourism key. > > At the moment Constantin Müller (aka ubahnverleih) and I think about a > consistent tagging of this amenities. At the moment there are 9 objects > tagged amenity=lockbox and 30 objects tagged amenity=locker [3, 4]. > Because there is few difference between both tags I would like to ask > the native English speakers at this list to answer me following question: > > What word describes a locker/lockbox at a train station (see linked > image above) better? Locker or lockbox? In the discussion at talk-de > Martin Koppenhöfer wrote that a lockbox can be found at a bank (for > money, gold etc.). But he was not sure. [5] > > Best regards > > Michael > > > [1] German: > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2010-October/076965.html > [2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/215036986#map=18/49.14281/9.20764 > [3] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=locker#overview > [4] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=lockbox#overview > [5] German: > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2010-October/076976.html > > -- > I prefer GPG encrypted emails. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
