Robert's OpenStreetMap Stuff (osm.mathmos.net)

Hi @ramthelinefeed thanks for the suggestion, but I don’t know if/when I’ll have time to look at the bus stop data you’ve highlighted. I’ve added it to may page of potential new data sources though. I don’t know if you’re aware, but there was a mass import of UK bus stops in various areas some time ago from a NAPTAN dataset. See NaPTAN - OpenStreetMap Wiki . I don’t know if this included NI or not, or how your data compares if it does. There were some conflation tools set up at the time, but I don’t know if any are still active. Possibly not. There are other conflation tools available now, and you may be able to use one of these yourself with the dataset.

Regarding your “Post Office”, I would say the first question is whether or not it is actually a functioning Post Office - i.e. a place where people can post letters and get other postal related services. If not, then I don’t think it should be tagged with amenity=post_office, since it’s not a current “amenity”. Perhaps historic:amenity=post_office, but then that doesn’t capture the recreation aspect.

If it is (and I could imagine in some working museums it might be – though how they handle having to use modern stamps I’m not sure), then I guess we’d treat it like a non-Post Office Ltd Post Office.

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That NaPTAN dataset only covers England, Scotland and Wales, not NI (not sure why - probably just Translink being useless).

It’s a while since I’ve visited the Ulster Folk Museum but I don’t remember being able to send letters from the post office. (Similar they can’t arrest you at their police station :upside_down_face:) I reckon a ‘historic:’ tag works fine (it’s clearly on the museum site, which is a big open air one)

@Robert_Whittaker one question I have about your Post Office tool that compares OSM data to POL data: how open do you refresh the OSM data? By chance I started working on the BT post code zone on 6th May, a day after the last refresh … but it hasn’t refreshed since, so I’m rather selfishly disappointed not to see my progress reflected in the tool yet :melting_face:

The updates to the post boxes and post offices are roughly weekly though there’s a manual step in the process, so can be longer between updates.

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‘Roughly weekly’ sounds cool to me. :melting_face:

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