Hello community!
I have come here to ask some questions regarding the tagging of what we
call community mailboxes in Canada (where each resident living in the
area has their own locker for incoming mail, and there is an outgoing
mail slot and some parcel lockers for things that don't fit in the
regular lockers), hopefully you can help me out!
We have been discussing on the talk-ca list
(https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2022-October/010520.html),
as someone on the OSM World Discord has asked how to tag them,
I kindly linked to the Canadian Tagging Guidelines page on the wiki, and
another user said that that was wrong tagging.
That wasn't the first time a similar conversation was had. A user from
the USA had also asked about the tagging, though for the equivalent down
there, and it was suggested to them to put 2 nodes, one letter box, and
one post box.
Currently, the recommended tagging for these community mailboxes is as
follows
(https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:post_box:type#Values_in_use_in_Canada):
amenity=post_box
post_box:type=community
The `amenity=post_box` tag seems to be only for outgoing mail only,
while this handles both incoming, and outgoing mail in one feature,
while the `amenity=letter_box` is for incoming mail only.
How would you recommend this be tagged, as it seems there isn't a clear
consensus between international users?
Should they be re-tagged as letter boxes?
- How would it be tagged that this is a community mailbox, that it
isn't a private mailbox for just one address, you can't reasonably now
which address the mailbox services, and one mailbox can service a couple
streets that are close-by.
Should an extension of `amenity=parcel_locker` be thought of since the
functionality similarly intersects?
Thank you,
wolfy1339
Quebec Canada
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