On Oct 1, 2022, at 4:41 PM, Davidoskky via Tagging <[email protected]> wrote: >> This is why I said "if it's got a user-friendly valve," like if you press a >> button (and a stream shoots up to your lips to drink), wiggle a stem so >> water falls down (on your hands to wash), step on a lever (and the flow >> begins)...yeah, these things have a knob / lever / valve (maybe it rotates, >> maybe it needs to be "pressed"): these are water_taps. You might wash your >> hands, you might flow gently upwards in an arc for your lips, you might >> cause a light flow to drip or flow downward. The "valve" (of many sorts), >> makes it a "tap." > > I'll add to this list all those taps that can be activated without a direct > manipulation of an object, such as passing your hand in front of a light ray > which causes the water to start flowing.
The objects being manipulated in this case are photons. Maybe you are being needlessly pedantic or "splitting hairs" (getting lost in the minutiae of details), I'm not sure. But I think asserting "if there is a valve (and there are many sorts of valves), it's a tap" is fairly clear. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
