Is there a consensus here? > The tag amenity=drinking_water is non specific, it could be a spring, a stream, a pool. I view it as similar to highway=road
Well said, amenity=drinking_water "a place to get drinking water" really just means drinking_water=yes and access=yes. Both a common tap and a drinking fountain are places to get drinking water. I feel it's fine for people to keep using amenity=drinking_water where you don't know anything else (eg. like highway=road until it can be classified), but feel these should be either: man_made=drinking_fountain man_made=water_tap (but remove the "press button" part of the description) Personally I'd like to be able to distinguish all of the following things which fall under water sources: * support easily filling a bottle (some bubblers can make it very hard to fill a bottle) yes/no (water_point:bottle_fill=yes/no) * allow for easily drinking directly from the stream of water (typical bubbler or drinking fountain would, but a tap pointing down would not) (man_made=drinking_fountain) * how is it operated (push and hold button, or a tap that you can turn on or off, or if it uses a handle is one supplied or do you need to bring your own handle to operate it, always on means you can't turn it off) (water_point:operation=push_button/handle/handle_byo/always_on) * does it have a hose attached (useful for say hosing down a boat etc) water_point:hose=yes/no * drinking_water=yes/no * access=yes/no/public/private/customers/permissive (eg. taps on private property) * operator= (who operates it, eg. local council) * fee (do you need to pay a fee to use it) * is there a bowl for dogs to drink from (water_point:dog_bowl=yes/no) * is the water chilled, heated, or "earth temperature"? On 13 January 2018 at 10:44, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13-Jan-18 08:58 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > >> >> sent from a phone >> >> On 12. Jan 2018, at 22:30, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> And that >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain is >>> used only 36 times worldwide? >>> >> > The frequency of use is,in part, determined by how long it has existed on > the wiki, > how well 'advertised' by links on other wiki pages, and how well known the > tag is. > > >>> Removing amenity=drinking_water and replacing it with >>> man_made=water_tap or man_made=drinking_fountain is not an edit that >>> should be made. >>> >> > As a person who added some of these amenity=drinking_water in the past I > feel that changing the ones I have added a better tag of, > say, man_made=drinking_fountain is justified ... that is what is > specifically there. > > Further .. if I find a drinking fountain at a place that has been tagged > with amenity=drinking_water, > possibly a long time before the existence of man_made=drinking_fountain .. > should it not be changed to a more specific tag??? > I don't see adding details to past tagging as detrimental. > Should I stop changing residential areas to construction where that takes > place? > Or from construction to residential/commercial? No. > > Changing the tag to something else where it has changed or adds detail > should not be discouraged, in fact it should be encouraged! > > > >> +1, please keep in mind that the wiki is documenting what people are >> doing, not what they should do (the latter is done in proposals ;-) ) >> > > The wiki documents what people use, not necessarily things that have been > proposed ... eg office, shops etc. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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