[talk-au] hills hoists

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

Sounds good to me!

Thanks

Graeme


On Sun, 21 Aug 2022 at 20:56, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 21/8/22 19:52, Warin wrote:
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> On 21/8/22 19:08, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
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> 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.
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> Can't think of a better choice of words though?
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> The more modern collapsible ones are like that, I think you can change the
> angle by changing the height of the centre support.
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> See https://www.theclotheslinestore.com.au/folding-rotary-clothes-hoist/
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> 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.
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> Arr they are called 'rotary' in the UK .. so I think 'rotary' may be best?
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RU:Tag:amenity%3Dclothes_dryer
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> Note the attributes applicable too
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> clothes_dryer:foldable=*
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> clothes_dryer:portable=*
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> from https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dclothes_dryer
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> These would suit the 'umbrella' types - tagged as
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> cloths_dryer=rotary
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> clothes_dryer:foldable=yes
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> The fordable attribute would not be easily spotted from imagery.
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> Thanks
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> Graeme
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> On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 at 17:58, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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 …
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>>  amenity=clothes_dryer only some 300 uses world wide
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>> clothes_dryer=umbrella bugger all of these world wide
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>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RU:Tag:amenity%3Dclothes_dryer
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>> 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.
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>> Any thoughts/objections?
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>> The one I mapped https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/9962837758
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