[Tagging] How to tag a cistern?

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 09:40:43 UTC 2015


My error on the 'cistern'.. or rather limiting the application. I'm 
thinking of the 'ballcock' ... not a plumber.

On 1/02/2015 8:33 PM, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> The Wikipedia defintion of "cistern" is much wider than the toilet 
> cistern: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistern
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> On 1 February 2015 at 10:21, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com 
> <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 31/01/2015 10:49 AM, S Volk wrote:
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>>     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).
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>>     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)?
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>>     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"?
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>>     Thank you in advance, regards,
>>     Sérgio (user:SergioAJV)
>>     svolk2 at hotmail.com <mailto:svolk2 at hotmail.com>
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>     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.
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>      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 ?
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>     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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