Hi, there are some differences between summit mailboxes and summit registers: mailboxes are designed to last for years (even for decades; in the Basque Country it's not uncommon to find mailboxes dating from the 1960s), and they don't contain a register book; they are usually empty (you will never find a pencil or an empty sheet of paper to write on it) because they aren't used to keep a permanent register of who has been there.
Mailboxes cannot be classified as letterboxes either because looking for them is not a goal on itself (however, most mountaineers enjoy taking a look at the mailbox) and because they aren't hidden, they just mark the summit. Overall, I would say they have more to do with register books than letterboxes (here's a link <http://cort.as/lFNn> with further explanations about mailboxes). Maybe we could use summit:register:mailbox=yes for mailboxes and summit:register:book=yes for normal register books? 2016-09-06 22:37 GMT+02:00 ksg <ks...@web.de>: > > > Am 06.09.2016 um 22:22 schrieb Wolfgang Zenker < > wolfg...@lyxys.ka.sub.org>: > > > > Hi, > > > > * Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> [160906 20:38]: > >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 2:20 PM, ksg <ks...@web.de> wrote: > >>> The tag summit:register=* is not yet defined in the wiki, but is > >>> widespread used in the Alps of Europe with > 600 instances. > > > >>> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/summit%3Aregister#values > > > >> OK, that sounds good as well. Maybe still have some sort of tagging for > the > >> type so that we can show a letterbox as Mr Díaz de Argandoña requests? > > > >> (As I said earlier, I'm unlikely to tag such a beast, because the clubs > >> where I climb request that climbers not share coordinates of the > registers > >> or GPS tracks of the routes on the peaks without established trails.) > > > > just to complicate things a bit further: I have seen some registers of > > the "I was here" type inside caves, placed there to get an idea how many > > people reach that particular part of the cave. summit:register would > sound > > a bit silly for those. > > > Hmm, the topic of Santiago Díaz de Argandoña refers to mailboxes at > summits. And in these cases summit:register:letterbox=yes might be > appropriate. > > geow > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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