On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer < dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1, these cases should all be addressed and differentiated. Additionally > it could be needed to separately address letters and parcels. The proposals > I have seen so far didn't solve this in any way, they didn't even describe > a subset of these, but rather proposed simply a new word/tag without > sufficiently defining or differentiating it. > It may be a difficult idea for a German - I understand that you really don't have courier offices over there separate from Bundespost since DHL was nationalized - but in the US, we have a common type of shop, with names like "FedEx Store" (some are still branded FedEx/Kinko's), "UPS Store", "Mail Boxes Etc.", that offer only, or mostly, parcel services (most have related services like photocopying). Right now, there doesn't seem to be any way to tag such a shop - and in the US, at least, we do indeed need one. No USAian would call such a thing a post office, so force-fitting that tag does not sit well here. Can we come up with a partial solution to allow these shops to be tagged, so that mappers can get on with that part, without trying to boil the ocean? Those that are interested in using OSM as a business directory can continue working on a taxonomy of services offered, surely. But let's at least get the things on the map! The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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