Terence Eden

I'm not familiar with the OSM API. I'm happy to take a Pull Request if you can work out how to match our IDs with theirs.

Hi, we already have a "Benches Near Me" button.  If you press that, it will request your location, centre the map, and zoom you in....

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53683189/mysql-regexp-for-emoji-unicode

That's an interesting idea. We already have metatags for location. ``` ``` Can you suggest a good way to get a Wikidata ID from the data? And, I guess more...

OK, I can look into it. Do you have any example sites I can copy from?

I really like the idea of adding Wikidata about the *subject* of a bench. But, as jbray1 says - most of them are for people without Wikipedia bios. I wonder...

We have https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47526250 and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:OpenBenches So there are some Wiki[p|m]edia pages which use the photos - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Benches_in_OpenBenches I'm not immersed enough in Wiki-speak to know if that helps or hinders...

It's a good idea. But is there a way to see if there *are* any other photos in the area? In the example linked above, there aren't. And I don't...

I think that is because someone else has edited them (either logged in or anonymously). So they get to "claim" it. An imperfect system, to be sure! Will check at...

Hmm - and some people are listed on the Leaderboard as having uploaded benches, but don't appear to have any.... https://openbenches.org/user/4620/