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oooo what a fantastic idea. I have always wanted to map as many clothes donation boxes as possible.

You can do that, little free libraries, water fountains, etc. all in StreetComplete as well.

The amount things you can map in OSM is impressive. However I ran into two things that have no formal tags: time capsules (historic=time_capsule), and camera obscuras (camera_type=obscura). You can add the values, but they are not official. Time capsule is in the work [0].

[0]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Time_capsule

> However I ran into two things that have no formal tags:

You can use https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like on OpenStreetMap. Many of the used tags are simply "in use" and not formalized with a proposal.

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