<div dir="ltr"><div>Update.</div><div>I looked around a bit (I am a city dweller, apologies, if this is new to me)</div><div>In South Tyrol (Italy) they have an interesting variant of this concept. The dairy uses refrigerated containers which are parked in designated spots at scheduled times. The nearby farmers bring their milk to the container and fill it up. The full containers are collected and carried to the dairy.<br></div><div>I found this <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BmnYj96Bc5h/">photograph</a> of such a container on Instagram.</div><div>I suppose this is not a mappable feature.<br></div><div><br></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 at 11:28, Philip Barnes <<a href="mailto:phil@trigpoint.me.uk">phil@trigpoint.me.uk</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 style="text-align:left;direction:ltr"><div>On Sat, 2020-06-20 at 19:25 +0100, Paul Allen wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:2px solid rgb(114,159,207);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 19:08, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:2px solid rgb(114,159,207);padding-left:1ex">
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> On 20. Jun 2020, at 14:44, Paul Allen <<a href="mailto:pla16021@gmail.com" target="_blank">pla16021@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> They should probably have disused=yes or a disused lifecycle<br>
> prefix (cue endless arguments about which) except in parts of the world<br>
> where they actually are still in use (if they are).<br>
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I think if any I would use disused=yes as they still remain „operational“ I guess, although not actually used.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>True of brick/concrete/stone. For wooden ones that are decaying, abandoned=yes</div><div>may be more appropriate. I've not had chance to take a look myself yet (and</div><div>won't be able to look until there's a vaccine) but sources I cannot use for</div><div>mapping indicate that the one nearest to me, embedded in a bank, has had</div><div>the bank reshaped to cover the top of it (only the side is visible). Using</div><div>abandoned=yes in such cases would seem appropriate.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:2px solid rgb(114,159,207);padding-left:1ex">
The disused:key=value style seems more appropriate for functions (amenity etc.) than for physical descriptions (man_made).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is how I interpret it, but others on this list have a different opinion. However,</div><div>I'd go with was:man_made=milk_churn_stand if it had been repurposed</div><div>in some way that it merited a different main tag. A foolish consistency</div><div>is the hobgoblin of little minds, according to Ralph Waldo Emerson.<br></div><div><br></div><div>That leaves the question of the name. For older British English speakers the</div><div>containers are called milk churns, even though they are not for churning</div><div>milk. This may cause confusion to younger speakers of British English</div><div>and those for whom English is a second language. According to the</div><div>Wikipedia article these are sometimes referred to as milk cans so<br></div><div>maybe milk_can_stand would be better than milk_churn_stand.<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>I can remember milk churns on these stands waiting for collection being a common sight when I was growing up.</div><div><br></div><div>These days milk churns are a common period prop on preserved railway stations.</div><div>For example here at <a href="https://osm.org/go/euxicGgb1?node=4174332260" target="_blank">Arley</a> </div><div><a href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4458834" target="_blank">https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4458834</a></div><div><br></div><div>When children see these and ask what they are they will be told that they are milk churns rather milk cans.</div><div><br></div><div>Phil (trigpoint)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:2px solid rgb(114,159,207);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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