Yes....but (I believe that) this tag is driven by the 'refill scheme' use case, which should be identifiable on-the-ground by displayed information. Data could be collected by apps built by the schemes.
The general case of "will a retailer give me free water as a customer" case is discussed to see whether it would make for a generic tag. On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 8:45 AM Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > I would tend to agree with Frederik. > > In GB (1) all licensed premises (2) must offer free tap water to > customers. This covers all pubs and bars, most restaurants and some cafe. > The mappers time would be far more efficiently spent adding a tag to > indicate which restaurants and cafes are licensed. This can be verified > from outside, which is simple. > > Retail mapping, and keeping it current, is hard enough. You cannot > practically gather this information by walking into cafes and asking, that > would not be efficient and if you rely on places you have been a customer > you.will end up with very incomplete data. > > Phil (trigpoint) > > 1. Wales, Scotland and England. Northern Irish law is different on this. > > 2. Licensed to sell alcohol. > > > On Wednesday, 22 January 2020, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 17.01.20 07:37, European Water Project wrote: > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Free_Water > > > > My opinion on this is: > > > > 1. It is not something that should be mapped in OSM at all; this is a > > volatile property like mapping menu items for a restaurant or product > > offers for a supermarket and may change at any time. > > > > 2. Even if we wanted to map this property, insofar as a whole chain has > > been signed up ("all XYZ outlets in ABC country offer free water"), it > > is wasteful to add the tag to every single outlet and it should just be > > recorded centrally (i.e. an app displaying free water options should > > simply highlight all outlets with operator=X or brand=X). > > > > 3. When we're talking about non-chain restaurants, the decision whether > > a random traveller will be offered a free refill for their water bottle > > can very well depend on the day of week, how politely the traveller > > asks, or how busy the place is - just because you've been given free > > water doesn't mean you should claim everybody gets it every time. > > > > 4. Even if all of the above were ignored, I think "free=yes" is too > > limited, and would concur with those who have suggested a "fee=no" > > approach, because if you are charged a dollar for your refill you can > > simply put "fee=$1". > > > > Bye > > Frederik > > > > -- > > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tagging mailing list > > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > -- > Sent from my Sailfish device > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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