On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:55 PM, Cez jod <czu...@gmail.com> wrote: Everyone is focused on amenity=drinking water. I have a question for the > source tag amenity=water_point, waterway=water_point (waterway=fuel maybe > also should be?) Is all confusion about amenity=drinking_water and > amenity=water_point related to the grammar of english language? >
It appears to have arisen from some mappers doing some silly things. A waterway, in English, and on OSM is a *navigable* body of inland water such as a river or a canal. There's another meaning in English (but not OSM) of waterway to mean a conduit to drain water. As it says on the wiki (you do check the wiki, don't you) somebody mistakenly used waterway=water_point instead of amenity=drinking_water. (safe to drink) or man_made=water_tap (not necessarily safe to drink) or amenity=water_point (safe to fill holding tanks with drinking water). This was later used by UK mappers to mean a place to fill holding tanks on canal boats. So waterway=water_point is drinking water, but from a tap not a drinking fountain and probably capable of high flow rates, and specifically for filling holding tanks on boats. amenity=water_point is the equivalent for caravan parks. Arguably, waterway=water_point should be deprecated in favour of amenity=water_point, but OSM (like many languages) has irregularities and exceptions. -- Paul
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