<div dir="ltr"><div>Round and round we go and ne'er the twain shall meet.</div><div><br></div><div>Mobile home simply will not work in this use case. Nobody camps or travels from place to place in a mobile home.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 7:01 PM Paul Allen <<a href="mailto:pla16021@gmail.com">pla16021@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 22:08, Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com" target="_blank">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_6463739770145667788gmail-m_4606495298043427647m_-8068616098502750911gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Wow, so much for me naively thinking that caravan was a universal word! Should know better by now :-)</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Yeah, where are the camels? It's not a proper caravan without camels. <br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Have a question about searching though, which was raised previously. You have a place that deals in both (self-propelled) "motorhomes" & also (towed) "caravans", & it's tagged as a shop=caravan, with caravan=yes & also motorhome=yes (ignoring the exact wording for the moment).</div></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>If you search for motorhome, will it be found because the details
include motorhome=yes, or would you have to search for caravan, because
it's tagged as a shop=caravan? (Sorry, I know that's badly worded but
can't think of a better way of putting it) <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Having thought about it some more, and using shop=mobile_home as the main tag (I know you</div><div>don't like it, but I do), then mobile_home:sells=static_caravan;touring_caravan;motor_home. Yes,</div><div>I just mixed UK and US terms there, but it was about the best I could come up with on a first</div><div>attempt (no doubt we will spend weeks arguing over those). Maybe we ought to have<br></div><div>"caravan" and "static_caravan."<br></div><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">So mobile_home appears to cover it. </blockquote></div></div><blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not really, sorry</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_home" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_home</a>: "<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">A </span><b style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">mobile home</b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> (also </span><b style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">trailer</b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">, </span><b style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">trailer home</b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">, </span><b style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">house trailer</b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">, </span><b style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">static caravan</b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">, </span><b style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">residential caravan</b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">) is a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabrication" title="Prefabrication" style="background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px" target="_blank">prefabricated</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">structure, built in a factory on a permanently attached chassis before being transported to site (either by being towed or on a trailer). Used as permanent </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home" title="Home" style="background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px" target="_blank">homes</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">, or for holiday or temporary accommodation, they are left often permanently or semi-permanently in one place"</span></div></blockquote>Nothing in that excludes touring caravans. "Used as permanent homes <b>or</b> for holiday</div><div class="gmail_quote">or temporary accommodation." "The are left <b>often</b> permanently [,..] in one place." It may imply</div><div class="gmail_quote">that the term most commonly refers to static caravans but doesn't explicitly exclude RVs,</div><div class="gmail_quote">touring caravans, etc.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Also, from the second paragraph of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorhome" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorhome</a></div><div class="gmail_quote">"Motorhomes" are part of the much larger associated group of <b>mobile homes</b> which includes</div><div class="gmail_quote"><b>caravans, </b>also known as tourers, and static caravans.<b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_quote">Not that anyone should ever take Wikipedia as gospel for anything, but that accords well with</div><div class="gmail_quote">(British) English definitions of "mobile" and "home." You can live in it (home) and you can</div><div class="gmail_quote"> move it around (mobile). "Motor home" excludes towed caravans and static caravans (no motor) and</div><div class="gmail_quote"> really only includes RVs and similar self-propelled vehicles.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-- <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Paul</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div></div>
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