[talk-au] hills hoists

[Warin]

On 21/8/22 19:08, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Just having a look & an "umbrella" clothes line seems to be an 
> inverted Hills Hoist, with the ends of the poles / lines higher than 
> the centre.
>
> Can't think of a better choice of words though?


The more modern collapsible ones are like that, I think you can change 
the angle by changing the height of the centre support.

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


I'd prefer 'rotary' as they can rotate. But 'umbrella' is what the 
Russians have chosen .. but they have not used it so the option is there 
to use something else.

>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
>
>
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 at 17:58, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     HI,
>
>     I recently saw the shadow of one of these while mapping and
>     wondered how to map it. It did stand out.
>
>     Turns out the Russians have a tag for it …
>
>      amenity=clothes_dryer only some 300 uses world wide
>
>     clothes_dryer=umbrella bugger all of these world wide
>
>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RU:Tag:amenity%3Dclothes_dryer
>
>
>     Must be millions of them in Oz. I think it needs to go into the
>     Australian Tagging Guidelines as a Australian English to OSM
>     translation … Some will say they don’t want private stuff mapped
>     in backyards, despite that people are mapping swimming pools and
>     tennis course in private backyards and then there are campgrounds
>     with hills hoist too.
>
>
>     Any thoughts/objections?
>
>
>     The one I mapped https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/9962837758
>
>
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