Tag:amenity=letter_box
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Private mailboxes where mailmen or other people deposit letters to specific addresses. |
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Q1587360 |
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A private mailbox where mailmen or other people deposit letters to specific addresses. It's often near a door or a gate of a building or access road. Do not confuse it with an amenity=post_box, it has the opposite function.
How to map
Add a node on the position of the letter box and add amenity=letter_box. If the box is attached to or built into the wall of a building, insert the node in the building's contour. Also add the address, see #Postal address below.
Mailboxes for several addresses are regularly combined in one place (for example per street in rural areas, or at the front door of an apartment) — then use just one single node instead of 20 separate ones.
Postal address
You can map the address the mailbox is for. Use the common addr=* scheme, BUT use the prefix post
instead of .
addr
- post:street=*
- post:housenumber=*
- post:unit=*: for the bus/apartment number if the node represents one single mailbox
- post:flats=*: for the bus/apartment numbers if the node represents multiple mailboxes
If you map multiple mailboxes as one node, it's likely that they have more than one housenumber. Follow the generic addr=* rules for that: separate the numbers with semicolons, such as post:housenumber=3;5;7B; create ranges like post:flats=13-24.