[Tagging] Hills Hoist cloths dryers

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 06:48:03 UTC 2022


Hi

I recently came across a 'Hills Hoist' ( a brand name that commonly 
refers to all of these for similar products in Australia) in satellite 
imagery and so I mapped it using

amenity=clothes_dryer, from taginfo some 300 uses world wide

clothes_dryer=umbrella none of these


The Russian wiki documents clothes_dryer=umbrella.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RU:Tag:amenity%3Dclothes_dryer

However I think these are the 'foldable' versions of the fixed 'Hills 
Hoist'.


They seem to be named as 'rotary' see;

https://www.theclotheslinestore.com.au/folding-rotary-clothes-hoist/ has 
both non foldable and foldable.

https://www.expertreviews.co.uk/best-rotary-washing-line

https://www.amazon.com/rotary-clothesline/s?k=rotary+clothesline


I think the Russian 'umbrella' wording refers to the folding ability of 
some of them. But this has another tag

clothes_dryer;foldable=yes


So I have adopted the tagging of


amenity=clothes_dryer

clothes_dryer=rotary

Done some ~5 of these, 1 private, the rest in camp sites.


Any comments/suggestions?





More information about the Tagging mailing list