[Tagging] Water source types

[Warin]

On 10-Jan-18 08:50 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:

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>> On 9. Jan 2018, at 18:21, Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl> wrote:
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>> Currently we show only amenity=drinking_water, but there are also:
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>> - man_made=water_tap
>> - amenity=water_point
>> - man_made=water_well (including optional tag pump=powered/manual)
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> We also show amenity=fountain.

I  use amenity=fountain for decorative fountains.The ones I tag I would not drink from.

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> there’s also waterway=water_point and there are the drinking_water and drinkable properties. And man_made=water_tank, landuse=reservoir and there’s bottled water of course.

There are also springs, streams and rivers, not to mention canals and drains.

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> I wouldn’t show man_made=water_tap because it’s either also drinking water, or there’s not much interest in showing it in this general purpose map. I would consider showing wells, because some of them are significant, and would tend to not include water points in the general map (or only at zoom 20+)
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The temperature here reached 43C (in the shade) the other day.
You might then consider drinking water points including taps to be much more significant than you do now.