<div dir="ltr">On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 08:56, Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <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><pre><tt>
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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">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dclothes_dryer</a></tt></pre></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>It's not wrong. The device is for drying clothes. But it may be misleading.<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>
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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">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_dryer</a>. </tt></pre></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To me, that is a tumble dryer<tt>. Which comes under the more generic heading</tt></div><div><tt>of "clothes dryer."<br></tt></div><div> <tt>
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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">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_line</a>.</tt></pre></div></blockquote><div><br></div><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 top-right of the page which</div><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 rather than</div><div>lines.<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>
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<pre><tt>Should this be changed ... as that would better indicate what is being tagged? </tt></pre></div></blockquote><div><br></div><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></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><tt>I'd say "clothes dryer" is good enough. On an outdoor location it's</tt></span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><tt>unlikely to 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><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><tt><br></tt></span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><tt>-- <br></tt></span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><tt>Paul</tt></span></div><div><br></div></div></div>