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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16-Jan-18 02:44 AM, Martin
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<pre>A tap cannot be easily drunk from ... you need a cup/hand to divert the water to your mouth.</pre>
<pre>A drinking fountain has a jet of water that can be intercepted by your mouth - no cup required.</pre>
<pre>A tap can easily be used to fill a container. </pre>
<pre>A drinking fountain cannot easily be used to fill a container.</pre>
<pre>See the OSMwiki for physical structures? </pre>
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<div class="gmail_extra">these are all relative, while not
everyone might be able to drink from a tap, my three year old
can without making himself wet, so it can't be that hard.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">The most typical drinking fountain
around here looks like this:</div>
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I would find that difficult to drink from .... Have to get on my
hands and knees, rotate head at least 90 degrees ... not easy. Far
easier with a cup/bottle. <br>
The young are far more flexible than the old. <br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">if you don't have a cup, you can block
the water at the end of the tube and it will jet out of the
tiny hole in the middle of the tube.</div>
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Arr ... so a wet hand/thumb. <br>
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To me this is a combination of tap and drinking fountain. <br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">A tap is only working acceptably well
for filling a container if there is sufficient pressure in the
tubes, not a given in arid areas in the summer.</div>
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As well as pressure there is a minimum rate of flow. You can have
high pressure but only a drop per hour. <br>
So I think you mean flow rate rather than pressure. <br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Those drinking fountains linked above
are comparable to a water tap with regard to filling a
container.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Don't assume that this kind of feature
is similar in all of its aspects around the world. E.g. the
requirements for a drinking fountain are that you can drink
and that it is made for drinking. It doesn't have implications
whether you can fill a container or not.<br>
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I have recently seen a photo of a drinking fountain with a sign "not
for drinking" .. I think it is some legal thing only, most would
drink from it directly. <br>
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There are water tanks along the Larapinta Trail and they all have a
warning about treat the water before drinking, yet lots of people
drink without treatment and without harm. <br>
These are all taps - no drinking fountains out there. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larapinta_Trail">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larapinta_Trail</a> <br>
Some American tourist on a day walk out there died from lack of
water recently, less than 1 km from a water tank ... yes it is in
OSM. <br>
OSMand renders the water source there ... would have to check the
tagging. <br>
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