[Tagging] compressed_air=yes / no - adding to amenity=fuel

Niels Elgaard Larsen elgaard at agol.dk
Fri Jan 21 20:20:14 UTC 2022


Paul Johnson:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 10:24 AM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dieterdreist at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     and of the fuel ways, many are not covering the whole area but only the
>     "building" (60% of amenity=fuel ways have a building attribute).
>     https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=fuel?filter=ways#combinations
>     <https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=fuel?filter=ways#combinations>
> 
>     I once have come across an automated compressed air machine which had a warning
>     that it could be used only for car tyres and would explode bike tyres. Any ideas
>     how to map this?
> 
> 
> Don't?  I've seen signs like that before, but only on compressed air machines that 
> aren't capable of delivering more than 2, maybe 2.5 bar, at volumes that would be 
> best described in terms of lungfuls per minute.  It's not uncommon for bicycle and 
> large truck tires to both take around 8 bar.  I bet we'd need need the mythbusters in 
> order to come up with a tire inflator that could explosively inflate a bicycle tire.  
> But it would almost certainly do the same to a car tire in that case...

It did happen to me as a child around Odense on a bicycle vacation.

I used compressed air at a gas station. It was a very loud explosion.

-- 
Niels Elgaard Larsen



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