I'm not arguing against "drinking water", just against "portable water" (water that can be carried)<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1599479539320"><br><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1599479523856">Peter<br><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a id="ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 at 11:42, Martin Koppenhoefer</div><div><dieterdreist@gmail.com> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div id="yiv4364736278"><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div dir="ltr">sent from a phone</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite">On 7. Sep 2020, at 07:55, Peter Neale via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv4364736278yMail_cursorElementTracker_1599457681422">I dont know about the USA, but in British English, "portable" means that it can be carried. </div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv4364736278yMail_cursorElementTracker_1599457921547"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv4364736278yMail_cursorElementTracker_1599457921851">If you can drink it, it is "potable".</div></div></blockquote><br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div><div>we‘ve had this discussion 10 years ago and the decision was for drinking_water=*</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=drinking_water">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=drinking_water</a></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=drink">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=drink</a></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=potable">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=potable</a></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>There’s no benefit from changing established tagging, and there were reasons for choosing drinking water rather than potable water.</div><div class="yiv4364736278yqt6638276791" id="yiv4364736278yqtfd12425"><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Cheers Martin </div></div></div></div> </div> </blockquote></div></div>