A search of "static caravans" and "for sale" finds many previously-owned static caravans but does not show results for a specialty retailer of these residential caravans.
So perhaps they are not really "a thing" in Britain. In that case shop=mobile_home is acceptable, as long as "mobile home" does not have some other meaning in British English which is different than "(static) caravan". - Joseph Eisenberg On 11/19/19, Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
