[Tagging] Rotary Cloths Lines

[Warin]

Hi,


I recently saw the shadow of a ‘Hills Hoist’ cloths line while mapping 
and wondered how to map it. It did stand out.

Existing tags that almost fit:

amenity=clothes_dryer, only some 300 uses world wide

clothes_dryer=umbrella,0 of these world wide


The traditional ‘Hills Hoist’ while resembling that is not quite 
correct, the arms are horizontal not at an angle, see 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_Hoist for a photo and lots of 
history. There would be quite a few of these in Australia, they are also 
sold in the United Kingdom and the USA..

Some online sales links:

https://www.theclotheslinestore.com.au/folding-rotary-clothes-hoist/

https://www.rotarydryers.co.uk/rotary-dryers/

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


The traditional style does not fold like an umbrella where as the newer 
style ones do. There is a tag for this ‘clothes_dryer:foldable=yes /no’ 
and I think that would do the job of distinguishing between them when 
known.

 From the sales descriptions above the name ‘rotary’ stands out as 
common with the occasional ‘umbrella’ being used in addition where they 
fold. The description ‘rotary’ comes from the ability to rotate with 
wind. I think it is not possible to distinguish the folding ones from 
the non folding ones in satellite imagery. For this reason I would not 
use the tag ‘clothes_dryer=umbrella’ but put forward the tag 
‘clothes_dryer=rotary’ as a better alternative. Where the folding 
capability is known then it can be added as the tag 
‘clothes_dryer:foldable=yes /no’.


I have mapped 11 of these so far. Any thoughts/comments?
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