Benches made of several wooden blocks

I’ve seen these here.


This one: Node: 13367657438 | OpenStreetMap


Which is Node: 13476179350 | OpenStreetMap

Are they better tagged as playground=youth_bench?
Or, is there a better tag than bench:type=block?

My first choice would be playground=youth_bench. However, in addition to the 323 entries of this type, there are also 4 instances of bench:type=youth_bench:wink:

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I’ve seen that

on taginfo, and thought that could still be erroneous use, with those numbers.

I guess tbere isn’t any other tagging to show that multiple people can sit there, behind each other?

They’re almost a very small type of leisure=bleachers. But in that case they’re also not usable as such, no backrest, and no “ground” to walk on in-between the beams.

I would be fine with tagging the three two-beam benches as playground=yourh_bench, but the three-beam ones look even less like the examples on the wiki.
Also; the bottom beam(s) is not a dedicated footrest, it’s firstly a seating surface – all of the ones on the wiki show smaller, lower and dedicated footrests.

Why should bench:type=youth_bench (think of Any Tags you like!) erroneous? Sometimes it needs time before a tag will be established - and such a type of a bench will not come along so often…

Is this a ‘cool’ spot for teenagers to hang around?

Assuming they are like this: File:Bench type block 01.jpg - OpenStreetMap Wiki Normally, I would have mapped them as:

  • amenity=bench
  • armrest=no
  • backrest=no
  • material=wood
  • seats=3 (or 17 if they are teenagers)

I suppose bench:type=block is reasonable. If these are just big blocks of wood, then playground=youth_bench doesn’t seem appropriate, they’re not cool enough. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: And their configuration would seem to be wrong - playground=youth_bench would seem to have a configuration that would allow someone to ‘spring’ off them.

No, I made the two images linked above today of those two linked objects. They’re not just on the ground.

Idk why the preview is like this;

If it’s inline with other text, File:Bench two blocks.jpg - OpenStreetMap Wiki then the url is shown instead.

Pasting the url I get when I view the “Original file” on the wiki makes the forum software show a preview though;


But I don’t know if that is a stable url or not.

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