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

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Fri Jan 21 20:23:25 UTC 2022


On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 2:22 PM Niels Elgaard Larsen <elgaard at agol.dk>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Well, color me impressed.  I've only managed to do that when I accidentally
pinched the tube when I set the tire bead and didn't notice it.
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