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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 08:56, Warin <<a
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<pre><tt>There is a small number of amenity=clothes_dryer with wiki pages... <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dclothes_dryer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dclothes_dryer</a></tt></pre>
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<div>It's not wrong. The device is for drying clothes. But
it may be misleading.<br>
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<pre><tt>To me a 'clothes dryer' is a mechanical machine that drys clothes - see 'tumble dryer - wikipedia <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_dryer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_dryer</a>. </tt></pre>
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<div>To me, that is a tumble dryer<tt>. Which comes under the
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<div><tt>of "clothes dryer."<br>
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<p><tt>OSM has a tag for it ...
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Ddryer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Ddryer</a></tt><br>
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<pre><tt>What is shown on OSM wiki to me is a 'clothes line' see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_line" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_line</a>.</tt></pre>
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<div>The example on that page is a clothes line (for drying
clothes, so is a clothes</div>
<div>dryer). However, there is another picture at the
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<div>isn't a simple line but a frame. I wouldn't call that a
clothes line. I suspect</div>
<div>where they have been mapped, many of them will be frames
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<p>Any 'line' would have a frame to keep the line off the ground. <br>
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<p>The Russian page has more: <br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RU:Tag:amenity%3Dclothes_dryer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RU:Tag:amenity%3Dclothes_dryer</a></p>
<p>The Russian page has more: <br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RU:Tag:amenity%3Dclothes_dryer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RU:Tag:amenity%3Dclothes_dryer</a></p>
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<p>This includes clothes_dryer=umbrella which to an Australian is a
Hills Hoist <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_Hoist">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_Hoist</a></p>
<p>And yes they are still called clothes lines. </p>
<p>This includes clothes_dryer=umbrella which to an Australian is a
Hills Hoist <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_Hoist">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_Hoist</a></p>
<p>And yes they are still called clothes lines in Australia. <br>
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<pre><tt>Should this be changed ... as that would better indicate what is being tagged? </tt></pre>
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<div>These days, Indoor passive devices for drying clothes
have a variety of</div>
<div>names, usually "clothes airer" or "clothes air dryer."
Back when I was</div>
<div>a child there was only one style of indoor airerwhich
somewhat resembled</div>
<div> a saw horse so was called a clothes horse. But there
are many designs</div>
<div>today which are more like umbrellas without the fabric,
for which the</div>
<div>term "clothes horse" is unsuitable.<br>
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<p>These indoor racks/horses/* are temporary. <br>
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<p>The only fixed indoor ones I know of are 'drying rooms' where
clothes are hung to dry (I have hung my tent in some to dry it).
'tumble dryers' as above and what I'll call 'drying closets' where
cloths are hung in a closet like thing and warm air circulated in
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<p>The only one I have at home is a fold-able metal rack. I think I
just call it a clothes dryer. <br>
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<div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><tt>I'd say
"clothes dryer" is good enough. On an outdoor location
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be a tumble dryer. But if it were, it's still a clothes</tt></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><tt>dryer.</tt></span></div>
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