[Tagging] Edit of wiki page amenity=drinking_water for man_made=water_tap

[Mateusz Konieczny]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 10:46:56 +0700
Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.com> wrote:

Tagging it as amenity=drinking_water is fine, but I would add also
fee=yes. Describing it as vending machine also would be a good idea.

> Here in Thailand there are many vending machines that sell purified,
> ion exchanged I believe, water for drinking. Current practice seems
> to be to tag them with amenity=drinking_water and leave it at that.
> What opinions do you have on that?
> 
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
> <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > 2015-04-05 9:59 GMT+02:00 Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> No. The correct way is
> >>
> >> man_made=water_tap
> >>
> >> drinking_water=yes
> >>
> >> See the wiki.. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/
> >> wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dwater_tap
> >>
> >> The addition of amenity=drinking_water may get it rendered .. but
> >> that is just tagging for the render.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > no to your "no" and to the term "correct" ;-)
> >
> > I agree with Mateusz, you can use amenity=drinking_water and
> > man_made=water_tap on the same object (if you want you can also add
> > the additional tag drinking_water=yes). I don't think your edit to
> > the drinking water tag page was necessary, but it also doesn't seem
> > you had introduced any inconsistencies.
> >
> > Please also be aware that the wiki documents the current state of
> > tagging (where most publicly usable water taps are tagged as
> > amenity=drinking_water).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Martin
> >