[Tagging] Outdoor deckchairs

Yves yvecai at gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 05:49:07 UTC 2018


Amenity=bench with a subtag seems a good idea for data consumers.
Yves 

Le 29 avril 2018 23:47:25 GMT+02:00, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 10:22 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick
><graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 29 April 2018 at 20:36, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>   I think an argument can be made for not calling them benches.  I
>just
>>> think they shouldn't be called deckchairs.
>>>
>>>
>> Daybeds? http://www.timbersteel.com.au/day_bed_maureen_oiled__9_.jpg
>>
>
>That image looks like a fancy bench to me.  And the wikipedia
>definition of
>a daybed doesn't remotely match
>the image in the original post: daybeds are usually sprung, have a
>mattress
>and outdoor ones usually have
>a roof-like structure to keep the rain off.
>
>
>> Maybe sun lounge would be a better choice?
>http://streetfurniture.com/au/
>> dev/product/mall-sun-lounge/
>>
>
>In British English a sun loung is a sunroom or solarium with natural
>sunlight.
>
>Sunlounger is closer, but the wikipedia article for that says they're
>adjustable.
>
>Which reminds me, you probably can't expect the standard OSM
>renderer/carto
>to render it
>differently (perhaps not even recognize it) going by what happened
>recently
>when somebody
>asked if benches with backrests could be rendered slightly differently
>(and
>even provided
>a suitable icon for it).  I didn't consider the reasons given for
>rejecting
>the request were
>logical, valid, rational or even courteous.  But if benches with
>backrests
>aren't going to be
>treated differently I doubt these things (if we can figure out what to
>call
>them) will be
>either.
>
>-- 
>Paul

Yves
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