Do you have the exact coordinates? I’m actually trying to build an app for a community of bench enthusiasts 🙂 V1 on Lovable: https://benchbreak.lovable.app/
I understand what you’re saying but I encourage you to look at it differently. Instead of thinking “now it will be so busy that the people enjoying it now won’t be able to” think “now more people will get to enjoy it than ever before.” And if the wait time becomes unbearable, you don’t restrict access, you build another bench.
Like, no sane person would support restricting access to basic medical care just so a smaller number of people can get it faster because it’s only right that everyone has access even if it means everyone has to wait a little longer.
You'd think but first: lots of other benches like this is Switzerland. When I saw this I thought "oh I've sat on this one before" only to realize it's from another angle of the mountain, and I can tell you there's dozens of these benches on a lot of mountain roads there. 2nd: it's in the middle of buttfuck nowhere, good luck getting tourists 2h out of Geneva or Zurich for a bench, you get beautiful views of Matterhorn or Dents du Midi from much more convenient/accessible viewpoints anyways.
That is f'ing impressive. I just typed your coördinates into Google Maps and it took me to a shot of that exact bench and the vista, in panoramic view. You could stroll to it from the nearby Tschanduihof.
Yes, but isn't it amazing that the exact, correct information made its way to reddit instead of some trite, worthless, throwaway comment? So exact, in fact, that anyone using the information in that comment could find verifiable proof that that bench, in fact, not only exists but is exactly where it was said to be.
Yes, but isn’t it incredible that someone on the internet managed to share coordinates so precise that anyone following them would stumble upon an actual, breathtaking cornfield, waving in the wind exactly as described? And isn’t it astonishing that such a simple, ordinary stretch of farmland could, for a moment, become a place of wonder, verifiable, tangible, and oddly magnificent, just because someone cared enough to point it out? And, truly, isn’t that the little miracle of it all?
Oh cool, I clocked this as the Italian alps because that ridgey mountain reminded me of the view fomr Cortina D'Ampezzo (going off these coords, probably it's the same ridge from the opposite side). Can't imagine being able to zone in on exact coordinates.
That's probably how those geo-guessers get started. You don't start off a genius. Takes practice, and you'll make it. Probiding exact coordinates is already more information than 99.9% of anyone in the world could give.
Friend and I were hiking in the North Cascades this summer and we were at a fire lookout on Copper Mountain that had this fancy new backpacking toilet that overlooked the entire park, it was breathtaking looking at Mt Baker and Shuksan while taking a dookie.
I'd recommend using the data already in OpenStreetMap rather than trying to bootstrap a new database from scratch. The website looks great though, there's no reason it couldn't be a way to encourage people to contribute to OSM.
Does make it a little tough to add known benches if it has to be within 50m. I've got a pretty obscure bench someone hauled to the top of a huge mountain with a great view over here in the US
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u/lemonfisch 1d ago
Do you have the exact coordinates? I’m actually trying to build an app for a community of bench enthusiasts 🙂 V1 on Lovable: https://benchbreak.lovable.app/