[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - drinking_water

[Janko Mihelić]

2014-04-14 12:15 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:

>
> sorry, if I come up a little late with this, and maybe it was already
> mentioned by someone, actually, "drinking_water" and "drinkable" are not
> exactly the same. If something is "drinking_water" I'd expect it to be
> monitored and "certified" to be OK to drink (at least in Europe), while
> water that is "drinkable" does more sound like "I (or someone else who has
> told me) have drunk this and didn't get ill".
>
> This doesn't invalid the "drinking_water=*" proposal of course, it just
> might be a reason not to deprecate "drinkable", and it might also be a
> reason not to perform automatic retagging.
>

I think this is better resolved with a second tag like
"drinkable:source=official,sign,local_knowledge,London_Agency_For_Drinking_Water"...

Janko
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