I agree that the old text for seats=* is much better. I would add capacity=* 
with the new text: Number of people who can comfortably sit on the bench at one 
time. 
I think it's not a problem that mappers may estimate differently, most will 
agree most of the time, and if the previous mapper e.g. uses smaller "people", 
some mappers might amend it but most mappers will tolerate the estimate, as 
will walkers. Adaptive bunch, walkers.

Peter Elderson

> Op 2 okt. 2022 om 22:21 heeft Raphael <dafadl...@gmail.com> het volgende 
> geschreven:
> 
> Until very recently, the wiki said that seats=* means seats, not capacity:
> 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:amenity%3Dbench&diff=2357111&oldid=2347958
> 
> In my opinion, this should be reverted.
> 
> Besides, i'm not very enthusiastic about using capacity=* because this
> is quite subjective - people have different figures (and feelings at
> which minimum distance to the neighbour they are still comfortable).
> It seems much better to tag the length of benches.
> 
> Best regards
> Raphael
> 
> 
>> On Thu, 29 Sept 2022 at 19:44, Peter Elderson <pelder...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I have stopped tagging seats, because most benches do not have seats. 
>> Capacity is ok with me, I will start using that, but still I don't think I 
>> will tag that very often, unless it's a huge bench for 20 (I have seen one!) 
>> or a very small one for 1 person. I don't mind if others tag seats or 
>> estimate the capacity different, as long as they don't remove my capacity 
>> tag.
>> 
>> Peter Elderson
>> 
>> 
>> Op do 29 sep. 2022 om 14:10 schreef martianfreeloader 
>> <martianfreeloa...@posteo.net>:
>>> 
>>> Facing heavy objections and no support, I have come to the conclusion
>>> that my proposal is not considered useful by the community.
>>> 
>>> I thus decided to retract it.
>>> 
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