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<body style="overflow-wrap:break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="mail_android_message" style="line-height: 1; padding: 0.5em">In general, I think that using a term like "parking" is friendlier towards the non-English speaking mappers, but I agree that it makes a difference whether you leave your horse there or just the rest of the gear.<br/><br/>Anne<br/><br/>--<br/>Sent from my Android phone with <a href="http://WEB.DE">WEB.DE</a> Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</div><div class="mail_android_quote" style="line-height: 1; padding: 0.3em"><html><body>On 27/08/2022, 21:08 Minh Nguyen <minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> wrote:</body></html><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0.8ex 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Two tags are currently being used to indicate the location of one or
<br> more hitching posts or hitching rails (where a horse can be tied down
<br> for a short time):
<br>
<br> * amenity=hitching_post -- 128 uses
<br> * amenity=horse_parking -- 114 uses, mostly individual rings in Ireland
<br>
<br> I think it would be beneficial to coalesce around a single tag for
<br> hitching posts, making more likely for renderers to support them. Which
<br> tag should it be?
<br>
<br> Both tags have their pros and cons:
<br>
<br> * In English, this street furniture is called a "hitching post", even
<br> when it doesn't take the form of a ring on a post. By contrast, "horse
<br> parking" or "equestrian parking" normally means a place where you park
<br> your horse *trailer* so you can go horseback riding. (The horse goes
<br> with you.) "Hitching post" is far more common in any event. [1]
<br>
<br> * Functionally, one "parks" the horse (albeit without the benefit of a
<br> parking gear). amenity=horse_parking is analogous to
<br> amenity=bicycle_parking, amenity=motorcycle_parking, etc.
<br>
<br> * It is possible to hitch something other than a horse, such as a cow or
<br> dog, though I think "dog parking" has become a more common term for dogs.
<br>
<br> amenity=hitching_post has been documented in German since 2011 [2] and
<br> in English 2020 [3], while the amenity=horse_parking article was added a
<br> week ago [4], though it was first introduced some time before that. [5]
<br>
<br> [1]
<br> <a href="https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hitching+post%2Chorse+parking">https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hitching+post%2Chorse+parking</a>
<br> [2] <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Diff/615710">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Diff/615710</a>
<br> [3] <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Diff/2045753">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Diff/2045753</a>
<br> [4] <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Diff/2377170">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Diff/2377170</a>
<br> [5]
<br> <a href="http://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/amenity/hitching_post&***/amenity/horse_parking">http://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/amenity/hitching_post&***/amenity/horse_parking</a>
<br>
<br> --
<br> minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
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