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 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 @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 😀