Examples of Post Box Operators please

[Minh_Nguyen (Minh Nguyễn)]

@Derek_Hunter

I have looked at the post_box:type examples and they are very useful. Do you have to locations for these?

If you click on each of the images in this gallery, some of them have coordinates under the description and author metadata. Click the coordinate and then the OpenStreetMap logo to see the coordinate in OSM. I went ahead and mapped them but without using post_box:type since I’m unsure about the best values.

@Derek_Hunter

Is ‘delivery class’ a thing in OSM data? It would be very useful for me - but I am not sure if this is the sort of information that other people want in OSM.

There are a few uses of post_box:priority=yes in the UK, but nothing beyond that as far as I can tell.

@Derek_Hunter

Please do discuss post_box:design and post_box:mounting! I am very interested in both of these

post_box:design is very specific. It seems like a better fit for your use case, with post_box:type being a fallback. I used it a couple times to distinguish between standard, large, and jumbo sized collection boxes, but the relatively small number of remaining antique boxes should probably be tagged with manufacturer and model for more specificity.

post_box:mounting has a lot of overlap with support and support:material. Regardless, these keys seem a lot more intuitive to me than this post_box:type key. Like many *:type keys, it purports to be an internationally harmonized system but lacks in international applicability.

[Derek_Hunter]

@Minh_Nguyen

If you click on each of the images in this gallery, some of them have coordinates under the description and author metadata. Click the coordinate and then the OpenStreetMap logo to see the coordinate in OSM. I went ahead and mapped them but without using post_box:type since I’m unsure about the best values.

Thank you. I did not know this. I clicked on a few images but I must have selected ones that did not have any location information.

@Minh_Nguyen

There are a few uses of post_box:priority=yes in the UK, but nothing beyond that as far as I can tell

For Australian post-boxes I will use post_box:priority=yes to distinguish between the red and yellow boxes.

@Minh_Nguyen

post_box:design is very specific

I think you are right that post_box:design is a better fit for me.

[Derek_Hunter]

@Fizzie41

OK, but it should be red, not black & green! At least around my area, this version is much more common than the “red-skinny”, so it should probably be your default for Australia.

I’m modelling the red one now!

@Fizzie41

Do have to ask though - what are you doing with them?

I’m testing a system for creating world-side terrain and I needed a feature that was reasonably common, had an orientation and was also nationally distinctive. Post-boxes seemed perfect since they seem to stick around for a while.