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On a slightly similar though perhaps less useful note, a colleague of mine runs https://govbins.uk, collecting pictures of council bins, so maybe take a photo of your bins too while you’re out doing benches. I love British whimsy projects.

This is a wild hobby. What inspired you to create a place for people to document memorial benches?

I saw one somewhere that opened with, "Wet Paint!", and then in smaller letters said who it was dedicated to.

And you can see highlights on Mastodon: @openbenches@botsin.space

Hmm, a recent wander round Kew Gardens led me to suspect that it was bound to be a hotspot and indeed it was. Great site, thanks for sharing it!

Well this is a lovely project! Apparently no benches recorded anywhere near me so will definitely start keeping an eye out 👍

Cheers for this, will keep an eye out! Sometimes it feels like there's more benches than people here. I love it.

Cool project. I appreciate these kind of passion projects.

Your about page mentions that open street map doesn't have a field for the message on the bench. So it sounds like you are keeping a secondary set of data, and this isn't being incorporated in OSM?

Have you tried to get that added in as a supported field? This feels like something that belongs in that dataset. I have no idea how hard it is to change OSM, though.