I don't think they are extinct. There are countries that require by regulation regular inspections of chimneys. For example, they check that the hot exhaust gases from your methane-fired central heating have non corroded the lining of your chimney, which would be a fire hazard. In Germany here is a federal law that regulates these businesses: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schornsteinfeger-Handwerksgesetz They work from offices and come to your home in vans.
On 3 October 2014 10:41, Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 09:11 +0200, Andreas Goss wrote: > > Tying to clean up the Wiki a bit and found craft=sweep. I think it would > > be better to tag it craft=chimney_sweep as this makes it clearer and a > > lot easier to understand for non-native speakers. > > > > What do you think? I would then also like to retagg the few that are > > already in use if others agree and change it in the craft table. > > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:craft%3Dsweep > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_sweep > > __________ > > openstreetmap.org/user/AndiG88 > > wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:AndiG88 > > > Apart from my first reaction, do they still exist? The last time I saw a > chimney sweep was sometime before the moon landing. > > The other and more important to OSM is, do they have a physical > presence? It is the type of trade that works from a van and is contacted > by phone/maybe email, much like a window cleaner. > As they are self-employed the registered office may be their home, but > that is not necessarily in the area they work and it is not somewhere > that will have a physical verifiable sign or be somewhere you would > call. > > Phil (trigpoint) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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