[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Bench: replace seats by capacity

[Anne-Karoline Distel]

Most times, I don't map the number of seats, because I don't have a
number of 3-4 friends with me when I'm mapping to test the bench, so I
can't tell how many people can sit on it. They installed a few 1-seater
"benches" in my locality during lockdown, I added it then. But I agree
that it might make it easier to simplify from seats to capacity.

Anne

On 29/09/2022 17:26, martianfreeloader wrote:
> I personally find it more consistent to reduce the number of
> synonymous keys across all objects.
>
> But yes, I am considering two groups of mutually exclusive proposals
> to settle this issue. Something along these lines:
>
> -----
> ISSUE 1
> Should the capacity of a bench be tagged on all benches or only on
> those which have clear seat separation? This is independent of issue 2.
>
> Proposal 1A) Only on benches with have clear seat separation.
>
> Proposal 1B) On all benches.
>
> Question to be resolved:
> Can a thing that has individual seats be considered a bench at all?
>
> -------
>
> ISSUE 2:
> Which key should be used to tag the capacity of a bench? This is
> independent of issue 1.
>
> Proposal 2A) Use seats=* on all benches.
>
> Proposal 2B) Use capacity=* on all benches.
>
> Proposal 2C) [Only if 1B is approved] Use seats=* on benches with
> clear seat separation and capacity=* otherwise.
> -------
>
> This is just a sketch, let's see if I have time to spell this it out
> in the next days.
>
>
>
>
> On 29/09/2022 17:19, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>>
>>
>> sent from a phone
>>
>>> On 29 Sep 2022, at 14:10, martianfreeloader
>>> <martianfreeloader at posteo.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Facing heavy objections and no support, I have come to the
>>> conclusion that my proposal is not considered useful by the community.
>>>
>>> I thus decided to retract it.
>>
>>
>> as you are interested in consistency, have you considered proposing
>> the opposite, retagging of the 1000 capacity on benches to seats?
>>
>> Cheers Martin
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