Mechanical Edits/overflorian-mass-edits/amenity=post pickup

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Who

I, overflorian using my dedicated automatic edits account overflorian-mass-edits, Overpass turbo and JOSM.

Contact

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What

Overflorian (talk) 08:13, 21 September 2021 (UTC) Considering that amenity=post_pickup is used 69 times in the world (stat on 21 sept. 2021) and that the alternative tag vending=parcel_pickup combined with amenity=vending_machine is used more than 10 000 times (stat on 21 sept. 2021), I believe that it's time to consider that vending=parcel_pickup is dead.

I just made that switch for France (65 objects modified using overpass on 21 sept. 2021). This change is now also documented for train stations in France.

I now suggest 1. to reject the tag amenity=post_pickup once and for all 2. make the same switch worldwide

How

An example (https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7237106150):

State before a mechanical edit:

• amenity=post_pickup
• operator=Amazon

state after a mechanical edit:

• amenity=vending_machine
• vending=parcel_pickup
• operator=Amazon

Changeset would be described and tagged with tags that mark it as automatic and provide link to discussion approving edit. It would include at least:

• automatic=yes
• discussion_before_edits=https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_Features/post_pickup

Changeset split into small areas to avoid continent-sized bounding boxes.
Edits generated by JOSM.

Discussion

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_Features/post_pickup

Repetition

Redoing this edit in the future would be treated as a new mechanical edit without any new approval process under the same conditions.