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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?

And you can see highlights on Mastodon: @[email protected]

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

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

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

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!

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.