I have the impression that slow running water points in Europe rapidly are fitted with a push button fot a limited amount of water or a limited tap time. Would that turn them into water taps?
Peter Elderson > Op 8 okt. 2022 om 19:26 heeft michael spreng (datendelphin) > <m...@osm.datendelphin.net> het volgende geschreven: > > Hi > > Yes, those examples from Eginhard are all fountains. I discussed this at > various times with other Swiss mappers. Reasons that some are not tagged as > fountain, from those conversations: > > - The term "decorational" confuses > - The examples on the wiki page are mostly exuberant examples. We should > add one of these images to the examples gallery > - The icon in the editor and on the map also shows a rather fancy > fountain > - It seems we have more specific terms in German for fountains. > Springbrunnen, Laufbrunnen, Brunnen... it confuses that in English, > everything is mapped to the same term (I'm not a native speaker, > please correct me if there are more). > > From my biased German speaking view, it would be nice to have a category for > "Laufbrunnen", meaning water is discharged at low pressure, usually > horizontally. No on/off switch. You can fill your water bottle easily. > > have a nice day > Michael > > >> On 08.10.22 12:38, Enno Hermann wrote: >> Taps seem clearly defined to me and I don't think a combination of >> amenity=fountain, tap=yes would make sense for the examples on the wiki: >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dwater_tap >> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dwater_tap> >> One thing I keep wondering about on this topic is how to tag very simple >> fountains that are widespread in Switzerland along hiking paths >> (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adlisberg_-_Gockhausen_IMG_4215.jpg >> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adlisberg_-_Gockhausen_IMG_4215.jpg>) >> or in villages >> (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brunnen1886BassersdorfI.jpg >> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brunnen1886BassersdorfI.jpg>). >> Apparently they are not decorative enough for some people and should be >> tagged amenity=drinking_water. However, the same type of fountain could have >> a sign saying the water is not potable >> (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brunnen_Waldweg.jpeg >> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brunnen_Waldweg.jpeg>, >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014-05-20-Yverdon_(Foto_Dietrich_Michael_Weidmann)_032.JPG >> >> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014-05-20-Yverdon_(Foto_Dietrich_Michael_Weidmann)_032.JPG>); >> probably these are often only added later for legal reasons when the water >> is not tested. It does not make sense to me to use different tags for the >> same kind of feature, so I generally use amenity=fountain for these with >> appropriate subtags. > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
