If you're out for a walk this weekend, and spot a memorial bench, please take a geotagged photo and upload it to https://openbenches.org/

We've got over thirty-two thousand benches - all added by people like you.

Every bench gets posted on our Mastodon-bot @openbenches

THANKS GANG!

OpenBenches Welcome!

@Edent @openbenches super cool. know of a few in town and will tag today

@Edent @openbenches

I love that all of the ones I've passed and looked to add were already in there. Very cool.

@Edent @openbenches The local pub. What do I have to put on it to make it a memorial bench?

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.49456/23.21917

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

OpenStreetMap
@Edent @openbenches does the data go into openstreetmaps?

@cubeofcheese we have signed an agreement with OSM which allows them to use our data.

It doesn't get uploaded automatically because people taking photos don't always have the same precision GPS coordinates as needed for mapping.

@Edent that makes sense. Lack of images is in my opinion OSMs greatest flaw. So I'm assuming you're hosting all the database in your own database and project it onto the OSM background layer?
@cubeofcheese
We host our own database. We use OSM (and a variety of other) mapping sources for display.
There's also an API so others can reuse our data.

@cubeofcheese @Edent

For what it's worth https://mapcomplete.org/benches.html makes it pretty easy to add images to #OpenStreetMap objects.

I thought @MapComplete had a carousel of nearby WikiMedia images for easy crosslinking but it's not showing up for me for the themes that I thought had it.

Edit: there's a "browse and link nearby images" button much further down the form.

Benches

A map of benches

@InsertUser @cubeofcheese
You are very welcome to use our API to add images to OSM.
Please respect the terms of the copyleft licence, thanks 😀
@Edent @cubeofcheese I did set up a maproulette challenge for it a while ago and integrated that into @MapComplete , but never promoted it because of performance issues. Maybe time to attempt this again
@Edent @openbenches It looks like you've already got all the ones in Sutton Park, which is the only place I go where I'm likely to see memorial benches.

@Edent @openbenches

@wikipedia does this get imported to wikipedia already?

@Edent @openbenches would they accept What3Words?

@torspedia
We don't accept that.

See https://w3w.me.ss/ for many reasons.

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