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Also, I discovered that the city of Vienna has a brochure about the different kinds of street furniture that appear here. It wasn't...

Also, I discovered that the city of Vienna has a brochure about the different kinds of street furniture that appear here. It wasn't helpful to me in this case, but I still enjoyed looking at it: https://www.wien.gv.at/stadtentwicklung/studien/pdf/e000039.pdf

Also: These are the prototypical-in-my-contexts sitting platforms I'm thinking of, but there's a lot of variants. Sometimes...

Also: These are the prototypical-in-my-contexts sitting platforms I'm thinking of, but there's a lot of variants. Sometimes they're larger (so that I'd definitely map them as an area), for example when they're shaped around a tree. Some have planters in the middle. Sometimes they're narrower, bringing them closer to bench shape. Then there's sitting waves that I tag as loungers – narrower platforms that have raised parts to lean against, usually from both sides.

Tagging question!How would you map a 2x2m low to the ground (up to around bench height) wooden platform that is meant for people to hang out...

Tagging question!

How would you map a 2x2m low to the ground (up to around bench height) wooden platform that is meant for people to hang out on?

amenity=bench
backrest=no
You can sit on it but not lean against anything. However, sometimes they're lower than benches, which would make them harder to use for some people.

amenity=lounger
You can lie down on it, but it's not shaped to make that extra comfortable, so this seems too specific to me.

I tend towards bench so far… Anything else?

Tfw you find a cozy spot to sit but there's nothing really left to map. #OpenStreetMap

Tfw you find a cozy spot to sit but there's nothing really left to map. #OpenStreetMap

I was looking for a bench, but none were mapped in my area. So I followed a promising path for a few meters and guess what I found :)...

I was looking for a bench, but none were mapped in my area. So I followed a promising path for a few meters and guess what I found :) I'll definitely be adding this one. Benches are super important.

I'm wondering how to tag worm hotels. As in, community-sized worm bins. Can anyone help?...

I'm wondering how to tag worm hotels. As in, community-sized worm bins. Can anyone help? https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/87090/how-to-map-a-worm-hotel

Sooo the tags for cool take-stuff-bring-stuff type places that I currently know...

Sooo the tags for cool take-stuff-bring-stuff type places that I currently know are:

amenity=public_bookcase
amenity=give_box
amenity=freeshop
amenity=food_sharing

And I love them just as much as I love those places :)

I was so excited to see that amenity=freeshop is now kind of a thing, with a few handfuls of uses and its own wiki article:...

I was so excited to see that
amenity=freeshop is now kind of a thing, with a few handfuls of uses and its own wiki article: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dfreeshop

Last time I checked, the only thing I found was advice to tag freeshops as shop=second_hand or shop=charity, which just doesn't do them justice.

I also went on a walk today and found one new-to-me public bookcase, and one not-quite-new-to-me give box, uh, give sculpture, actually, that I had forgotten about.

Pretty good for one day!

A cemetery in #Vienna (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8731801#map=17/48.17846/16.36050) turned some abandoned graves into public...

A cemetery in #Vienna (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8731801#map=17/48.17846/16.36050) turned some abandoned graves into public bookshelves (https://www.lebensraum-friedhof.at/buechersteine/). I was really itching to map them on my way home today, but I forgot to put on sunscreen so today wasn't the day for adventures.
#OpenStreetMap

Ok, but, actually, at least one around here is in trans colors. Which… is like a rainbow crossing in spirit, but I still don't feel...

Ok, but, actually, at least one around here is in trans colors. Which… is like a rainbow crossing in spirit, but I still don't feel like the tag works well for it… I'm sure someone's thought about this before, what did you come up with? #OpenStreetMap

Sooo, dear wider internet, https://mapcomplete.osm.be/rainbow_crossings.html is a great way to add any rainbow crossings that you happen to...

Sooo, dear wider internet, https://mapcomplete.osm.be/rainbow_crossings.html is a great way to add any rainbow crossings that you happen to know of to #OpenStreetMap.

Alternatively, if you're into that shit and prefer to do it differently, crossing:marking=rainbow is the tag to add :) https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:crossing:marking

I deleted my previous toot because I couldn't believe rainbow crossings were this under-mapped and was sure I was overlooking something....

I deleted my previous toot because I couldn't believe rainbow crossings were this under-mapped and was sure I was overlooking something. But no, apparently they're not just under-mapped here, but in… most places: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1l6Q

I'm not even that much into them, but I feel like that is going to change. Next time I see one, I hope I remember to tag it! There's tons of them in #Vienna. Well, a handful at least.

Tried out the Every Door app, and liked it! I'm not sure if I'll use it regularly, but once I got over the "aaaah so many...

Tried out the Every Door app, and liked it! I'm not sure if I'll use it regularly, but once I got over the "aaaah so many symbols, what do they mean" it was definitely fun.

Hi osm.town!Since my current main mastodon account is much more personal, and I left the one nice telegram group I was in, I really missed...

Hi osm.town!

Since my current main mastodon account is much more personal, and I left the one nice telegram group I was in, I really missed some connection to nice OSM stuff :)

I filled out my OSM profile today for the first time ever – in German, the language most of the contributors around me use. Maybe it's because I'm kinda wary of German OSM communities that I felt like making an account here to balance that.

I'm so excited to be here!