I’ve heard of places not refilling water bottles due to hygiene reasons (whether that is a concern or not is a separate discussion) but will give a glass of water to whoever asks. And on the opposite side, there are places that will refill bottles but won’t give a glass a water.
> On 13 Jan 2020, at 11:06, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com> wrote: > > 13 Jan 2020, 10:42 by colin.sm...@xs4all.nl: > How about free_water=yes if it is available to anybody, and > free_water=customers if it is only available to paying customers? > > +1 > > And free_water=no for explicit tagging of not providing a free water. > I assume this could actually apply to all manner of objects, including pubs, > bus stations, town squares... If so, there is no need to reference > amenity=cafe etc in the tagging standards, other than as a non-normative > illustration or example. > Though I am unsure whatever tagging town square with mapped > amenity=drinking_water is a good idea. > > Referencing carafe is not a good plan; firstly that is the container, not the > contents and this proposal is about the contents. Secondly, many other things > are frequently served in carafes, such as wine. So free_carafe=yes may end up > disappointing a few people... > And water is not always served in a carafe. > > And as bonus this tag is significantly less clear in meaning (even "carafe" > word > is among rare ones, more likely to be unknown). > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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