[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Water tap

Kotya Karapetyan kotya.lists at gmail.com
Tue Dec 30 20:32:33 UTC 2014


Einverstanden :)
Please vote:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/water_tap#Voting

Cheers,
Kotya

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Friedrich Volkmann <bsd at volki.at> wrote:

> On 04.12.2014 10:31, Kotya Karapetyan wrote:
> >     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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
> In German, we have a verb "verschlimmbessern", which means to make
> something
> worse by improving it. I agree with Warin that water_source=potable does
> not
> seem right. It mixes source (origin) and target (use). water_source=* may
> be
> fine with another set of values, and *=potable may be fine with another key
> (drinkable=* and drinking_water=* are in use, and water:quality=* and
> water_purity=* were suggested in this discussion).
>
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