[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Water tap

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-12-30 21:33 GMT+01:00 Kotya Karapetyan <kotya.lists at gmail.com>:

> I agree.
>
> Voting page:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/water_tap#Voting
>
> Thanks everyone for the in-depth consideration.
>



now, that this has fortunately become something more simple (e.g. not
implying that the water is not drinkable, not replacing
amenity=drinking_water etc.), I have some additional questions:

what exactly is a "water_tap"? Does it require that you can shut it down or
open it (i.e. are "always on taps" also taps?)? Are particular "interface"
specifications possible/required (e.g. standard plug to attach a tube,
diameter for the tube). Around here the typical settings for water flow
are: always on or 3 types of devices to turn it on: a push button (you have
to hold to get water flow), another kind of push button (you press once and
get flow for some time without having you to continue to push) or a turning
handle to open/close the valve.

Also I wonder if we should have tags for hot/cold water and those taps that
mix hot and cold in the same tap?

I find this sentence strange in the definition: "Unlike a water well, water
tap usually connects to water pipes rather than to a natural source of
water."
Isn't a tap the "final interface to who needs water", usually with a valve
to open and close flow? How would that relate to a water well (a device to
pump water from the ground)? I thought a water well could have just as well
a water tap at the end of its pipes to control the flow.

I would also change "public" to "publicly usable" (or publicly accessible),
because this is what does matter (and we don't want to exclude "privately
owned, but publicly usable taps" in this generic proposal, do we?).

cheers,
Martin
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