Key:boot_scraper
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| A device to clean the sole of shoes and boots.   | 
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| Status: in use | 
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A boot scraper is an outdoor device where shoes and boots can be cleaned. They can often be found outside Georgian or Victorian buildings (residential, less often churches[1]), but also at the entrances of parks and national parks to prevent spreading invasive species or similar.
How to map
Because boot scrapers are very small features that are usually/ often associated either with an entrance door or an information sign, it is the safest practice to add the boot_scraper=* to the entrance=* or the  for
 for tourism=information + information=board (or whatever applies).
If you want to indicate which site of the entrance the boot scrapers is at, going into the door, you can use boot_scraper=left/ boot_scraper=right/ boot_scraper=both.
If there is a handle, you can further add boot_scraper:handle=yes.
If you want to add wikimedia links to an image of the boot scraper, use boot_scraper:wikimedia_commons=*, because the regular wikimedia_commons=* will be expected to show the entrance.
Some have already been mapped as free standing nodes with amenity=boot_scraper: 
and amenity=boot_cleaner: 
Examples
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			Boot scraper in Kilkenny, Ireland
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			Boot scraper at Hampton Lucy, England
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			Boot scraper in Carmarthen, Wales
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			Boot scraper in Düsseldorf, Germany
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			Thun, Switzerland
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			Boot scraper in the shape of a dog, Hungary
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			Boot cleaner at Haysden Country Park, England
Footnotes
- ↑ At least not in Ireland, but there are still some surviving at churches in the UK.














