I hope a little bit of self-promotion is allowed?
My wife and I run “Open Benches” which is a crowdsourced collection of memorial benches. We’ve got about 25,000 in the UK!
If you’re out for a walk in the sunshine this weekend, please take a photo of any memorial benches you see. You’ll need to turn on location tagging on your phone’s camera - that way we can accurately place the benches on the map.
Enjoy!
- Floppy ( @Floppy@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
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.
- thegiddystitcher ( @thegiddystitcher@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Ooh ours is already on here. I don’t understand the purpose of it but am somehow very glad it exists.
- Floppy ( @Floppy@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
And you can see highlights on Mastodon: @openbenches@botsin.space
- Sun-Spider ( @sunspider@lemmy.world ) English1•1 year ago
Awesome, they’ve now got another follower.
- PriorProject ( @PriorProject@lemmy.world ) English4•1 year ago
This is a wild hobby. What inspired you to create a place for people to document memorial benches?
Part of it is being an open data geek. And part of it is trying to understand the psychogeography of the world.
- Mortuum ( @mortuum@lemmy.world ) English3•1 year ago
Cheers for this, will keep an eye out! Sometimes it feels like there’s more benches than people here. I love it.
- TeaHands ( @TeaHands@lemmy.world ) English3•1 year ago
Well this is a lovely project! Apparently no benches recorded anywhere near me so will definitely start keeping an eye out 👍
- mykl ( @mykl@lemmy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
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!
- spicemouse ( @spicemouse@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
I saw one somewhere that opened with, “Wet Paint!”, and then in smaller letters said who it was dedicated to.
- loskristianos ( @loskristianos@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
I like this idea! There’s a load along the river by me that aren’t on there yet, and probably more around the village, I’ll try and grab them later on when I’m out for a walk.