Re: [Tagging] drinkable vs. drinking_water

2012-07-24 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/7/21 David ``Smith'' : > public parks, and on many trucks and railcars. On the other hand, I'd never > heard of a "trunk road" before joining OSM. I still don't know any > objective way to tell the difference between trunk, primary, secondary, > tertiary, and unclassified roads The basic i

Re: [Tagging] drinkable vs. drinking_water

2012-07-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Philip Barnes wrote: > On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 11:43 -0400, David ``Smith'' wrote: >> Just contributing another data point on vocabulary… >> >> I am a native English speaker from Ohio, USA. I have been aware of >> the term "potable" for many years, probably since as

Re: [Tagging] drinkable vs. drinking_water

2012-07-24 Thread Jason Cunningham
On 22 July 2012 14:32, Philip Barnes wrote: > I am a native English speaker from the UK, I have never seen the term > potable used in the UK. Labels on taps use the term 'drinking water', or > 'not drinking water'. Any council using the word 'potable' is likely to > be slammed by the Campaign For

[Tagging] emergency=fire_hydrant and wrenches

2012-07-24 Thread Stefano Pallicca
Hi all, In the place where I live, there are some hydrants that are secured, that is you have to open it using a square or pentagonal wrench. I think that this distinction could be useful (which wrench has to be used, if any...) Stefano ___ Tagging mail

Re: [Tagging] emergency=fire_hydrant and wrenches

2012-07-24 Thread David ``Smith''
Useful to whom? The local fire department should already know, and nobody else should be authorized to open the hydrant anyway — though it seems the biggest reason departments object to unauthorized access is damage caused by using the wrong kind of wrench… _

Re: [Tagging] drinkable vs. drinking_water

2012-07-24 Thread Glom
Ilari Kajaste wrote > > On 13 July 2012 20:30, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> 2012/7/13 Ilari Kajaste : > > 2) as a further definition for "amenity=drinking_water" either as 2a) > quality attribute (e.g. "drinking_water=untreated") or as 2b) type > attribute ("drin

Re: [Tagging] drinkable vs. drinking_water

2012-07-24 Thread Philip Barnes
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 13:00 -0700, Glom wrote: > ng, I have a question for Eugene Alvin Villar that wrote today > about potable. > Is it so that potable is recognized as the "correct" word and if you > here or read drinkable it will suggest that the person writing it do > not know the correct word