<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 21, 2019, at 12:16 PM, Andrew Davidson <<a href="mailto:theswavu@gmail.com" class="">theswavu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">hitching posts</span></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hitch just means fasten to</blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">yes, that is the verb. we're talking nouns. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">a “hitch” could be a class of knot (Bowline, etc), or a part of a trailer. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">a “hitching post” (operative word “post” ) is a type of anchored horizontal bar for strapping the reins of a transportation animal to while doing something else. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“hitching post” is a common description of the things used to hold a horse while parking in front of a location because you HITCH (that verb) the horse to the post with a binding HITCH KNOT. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">You can get hitching posts for bicycles, boats, caravans, horses, dogs.</blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">No you can’t. that is the point.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> - Boats use cleats at a dock. the knots they use when tying the rope are called hitches. Knots are not mappable.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Bicycles use racks or stands. the one that looks like hitching post, but is often not anchored into the ground is a sawhorse rack or a bike hangar. The thing you pass your lock through that is anchored into the ground is a stand of some type. there are manytypes of stands. Stands are mappable already.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> - A hitch on a caravan is part of a vehicle, so it is not mappable, so it is not part of the discussion.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The feature we are mapping is the ALTERNATIVE to someone HITCHING their dog to a stop sign.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is a hook for leads, not a horizontal bar where the lead (leash) or reins are lashed to a horizontal pole. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some sort of… Hook… for pet leads... a Lead hook! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Camel hitches are different </blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">no, they use hitching posts too.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Your link about camels in a truck doesn’t illustrate any object that can be called a hitch (besides maybe the knot on their harness), let alone a mappable item. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">here is a camel at a hitching post.</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-young-kyrgyz-boy-leads-a-camel-at-the-kyrchyn-jailoo-at-the-world-116460759.html" class="">https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-young-kyrgyz-boy-leads-a-camel-at-the-kyrchyn-jailoo-at-the-world-116460759.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">the dog hook in your house isn't a mappable item. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">since the nouns - "hitching post" and “hook” are different, used for different purposes in different locations for different classes of animals, I think they should be mapped with different tags. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">These word games are not fun if you don’t use the actual names of the other the items. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Javbw</div></div></body></html>