[Tagging] Feature proposal - Voting - Water tap

[Marc Gemis]

So what is the solution ?

amenity=non_drinking_water ?

It seems that amenity=drinking_water is cut into stone and we will never be
able to change this tag, although it obviously blocks more general tagging
scheme for water sources.

regards

m.



On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Kotya Karapetyan <kotya.lists at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > As of today, a total of 16 votes have been submitted, 11 of them are
> > approvals. Since 2 weeks have passed and the required number of votes
> > (15) has been reached, I have closed the voting and will proceed with
> > clean up.
>
> Sorry but you could extend the period of feedbacks. 7 of the 11
> positive "votes" came before the 13th january when I posted my
> comments about the possible issues (and the discussion forwarded here
> which probably drew more attention to more people). After this date
> the trend was much more balanced. You say you are aware of the clash
> with amenity=drinking_water but you don't explain how you will avoid
> this in your cleanup. You also agree that we need a rework but your
> proposal is just increasing the difficulties than solving them in the
> future. Now, for a water tap in the public space, it will be tagged
> with "amenity=drinking_water". And for the same water tap inside or
> near a cemetery, it will be tagged with "man_made=water_tap". How can
> we explain that to newcomers ? why "amenity" in one case and
> "man_made" on the other ? what is implied about potability ? etc
>
> Pieren
>
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