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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/12/2014 8:32 PM,
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Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 10:31:55 +0100
From: Kotya Karapetyan <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kotya.lists@gmail.com"><kotya.lists@gmail.com></a>
To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools"
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Subject: Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Water tap
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For me, English common sense says a 'water source' could be a river, lake,
spring etc...
the portability of water is not a measure of its source (where it comes
from) but its purity...
So I'd think the key should be
Water_purity with the key values 'potable', 'nonpotable' and 'unknown'
('yes' does not imply anything in the context of water purity nor water
source).
That key can be added to rives, lakes, drinking fountains etc etc .. no
changes are required for present tags. Simply the additional information
can be added.
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Warin, I don't know if you followed the discussion and saw the proposal in
the wiki.
In short, it all started with the lack of good option to map a source of
non-potable water, like a water tap. It evolved from there to the current
state. The proposal from the last email reflects to ~90 % everything
suggested as the discussion proceeded.
I agree that water_purity sounds better than many other combinations
though. So if you could suggest how to tag a tap with non-potable water, we
can reconsider it.
Cheers,
Kotya
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'We' don't have a current tag for water_tap. Which is where this
started. If it were about the portability then the subject is
missleading in both this topic and in the wiki. <br>
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As is usual the discussion considers many things associated with
said tap. Hence my comment on the tag for water purity, which
could be used for any water object, not just taps but fountains,
rivers etc.<br>
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The wiki
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/water_tap">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/water_tap</a> now
considers water purity before water tap ... ! As this discussion
looks to be too. It should have the tap as the first
consideration. <br>
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The main choice for water tap is between man_made = water_tap or
amenity = water_tap. I have no firm idea on either choice. If I
have too now I'd chose man_made=water_tap. Fits with
man_made=water_well .. though not with amenity=shower and I'm
certain tehre are other examples. <br>
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But the tag for the purity of the water should be named so that it
cannot be confused with some other meaning. And be secondary to
the facility .. much as 'surface=paved' is to other tags (eg
highway). <br>
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So on one node the following tags <br>
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man_made=water_tap<br>
water_purity=non-portable<br>
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Aside. The tag amenity=drinking_water I have used for water
blubbers commonly placed in parks for people to drink from here.
They are about waist height that provide a vertical jet of water
say 6" height controlled by a self returning mechanism. They
would all be taken as portable. Here we don't usually consider
fountains to be sources of human drinking water due to possible
pollution (e.g. bird droppings, ducks etc)</big>.<br>
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