Since 2018 I’ve been a fan of OpenBenches, a community-driven effort to catalogue memorial benches. Co-creator Terence Eden just wrote a blog post about the cost of running the service, which was pretty-much in the region of what I expected but (as an on-again, off-again financial backer, depending on my own financial health!) I appreciated the transparency anyway!
The news came at about the same time as I logged the first bench of the Canary Islands while I was waiting (in vain) to log an obstructed geocache during my recent trip to Tenerife.
OpenBenches’ dataset is still very UK-centric. I like that I’ve helped broaden its borders! (I’m currently the 83rd-from-top photo contributor, apparently.)
If you’re not already helping collect benches, you should give it a look. You can install the site to your mobile device as a progressive web app and start snapping benches.
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