[Tagging] How to tag a cistern?

Volker Schmidt voschix at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 09:33:01 UTC 2015


The Wikipedia defintion of "cistern" is much wider than the toilet cistern:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistern




On 1 February 2015 at 10:21, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 31/01/2015 10:49 AM, S Volk wrote:
>
>
>  Hi,
> I've been mapping on Africa in HOT tasks and around, I've seen some
> cisterns, also know that some humanitarian NGOs have made many cisterns  on
> Africa (also water_wells).
>
>  Question:
> How to tag a cistern (it seems to be not like what is shown for
> "landuse=reservoir"; rather a small "man made" reservoir, on ground level
> or escavated, for either natural or treated water)?
>
>  Or, in addition, since there are tags for "man_made=water_well,
> "man_made=water_tower", wouldn't it be worth to have a tag like
> "man_made=cistern"?
>
>  Thank you in advance, regards,
> Sérgio (user:SergioAJV)
> svolk2 at hotmail.com
>
>
>
> A 'cistern' has a mechanism for keeping a water level stable, commonly
> used in toilets. And OSM has no tag for that feature (yet). They are
> connected to a water supply with some pressure behind it.
>
>  I'd think you want to map the provision of water?
> If it is 'drinkable' then the generic amenity=drinking_water would suit?
> If non potable then amenity=watering_place ?
>
> If you don't know if it is drinkable then assume not, so use amenity=watering_place
> ? Maybe add a note ?
>
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