A static caravan is very movable, providing you have a hgv and the necessary equipment to lift it.
Phil (trigpoint) On Tuesday, 19 November 2019, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Am Di., 19. Nov. 2019 um 05:53 Uhr schrieb Joseph Eisenberg < > joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com>: > > > Rather this is a place where you can view and order a manufactured > > dwelling, aka "static caravan", "mobile home", which you might place > > in a "trailer park" in the USA. Some of these look rather house-like, > > if they are "double-wide" and have to be delivered in 2 parts, others > > are somewhat similar to camping caravans but are designed for > > year-round living in one place, in mild climates. > > > > > > how "mobile" are those, e.g. compared to a container home, or a > prefabricated single family home? (Intending with the latter term a > construction that does not remain "mobile" once it is set up and put in > place, and the former as "maybe" mobile = dismountable and reusable with > some effort. Ultimately, every kind of construction can be dismounted (or > moved entirely, if you don't mind an extraordinary effort), and often the > material can be reused. Are we going to look at how complicated / work > intensive / technically feasible without destroying parts, this will be, or > will it simply follow the self-declaration of the vendor? (probably the > latter). > > To give a concrete example, is this a mobile home of the kind you are > asking about? > https://www.gilmorecityiowa.com/vertical/Sites/%7BAF493C7D-8EF8-4030-AA1E-B40B51320DEF%7D/uploads/over_sized_load.JPG > > Or is it something like this: > https://bestofhouse.net/wp-content/uploads/trailer-homes-sale-new-mobile_117483.jpg > > This would be an example for a (bigger) container home: > https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/shipping-container-homes-4.jpg > > > > > Another user made the page shop=mobile_home but I'm guessing that this > > is American English and might not be correct. > > > > > I would expect these "trailer homes" to be an american specialty, so I > wouldn't mind if we used an american term for it (we generally do not have > the possibility to transport oversized things on the roads in Europe, > traffic is too dense, and too many obstacles like adjacent buildings, > bridges and narrow roads, so with the legal requirements for such > transports it would cost too much to do it for something like a "cheap" > home. > > There might also be other legal obstacles, like you could not live > permanently in such a structure (maybe unless you set it up on ground that > is zoned as residential area, but then this would cost too much to use it > as extensively as these, or maybe there isn't cultural acceptance for > these, or a mix of all these, in the end these are not frequent. > > There are similar situations though, like alotment gardens with huts on > them, where people may live occasionally (but usually not legally), or > campsites with semi-permanent residents, generally used as holiday homes > (and mostly only in the warmer period of the year). > > > > > "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_home: "A *mobile home* (also > > *trailer* > > , *trailer home*, *house trailer*, *static caravan*, *residential caravan*) > > is a prefabricated <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabrication > > >structure, > > built in a factory on a permanently attached chassis before being > > transported to site (either by being towed or on a trailer). > > > > > so the chassis must be there, is a strict requirement? Would a > box-structure (container) satisfy this requirement? > > Cheers > Martin > -- Sent from my Sailfish device _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
