[Tagging] Water source types

Selfish Seahorse selfishseahorse at gmail.com
Thu Jan 11 21:14:31 UTC 2018


On 10 January 2018 at 10:21, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems we are repeating ourselves once again:
>
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2012-July/010809.html
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-November/019998.html

In order to avoid repeating ourselves again in a year: should I add a
note to the wiki page of `amenity=drinking_water` that this tag is
discouraged? Or is this something that needs to be voted on given the
fact that this is an approved tag and is widely used?


On 10 January 2018 at 10:21, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems we are repeating ourselves once again:
>
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2012-July/010809.html
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-November/019998.html
>
> regards
>
> m
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 9:53 AM, Thibaud B <cbgb-jhl at hotmail.fr> wrote:
>>>Because drinking water is a *property* of sources, water wells,
>>>fountains, drinking fountains (bubblers) etc., I think it makes more
>>>sense to tag these objects and to add drinking_water=yes tags
>>>(discouraging the use of `amenity=drinking_water`).
>>
>>>As for the rendering, I like how OsmAnd renders drinking_water=yes/no:
>>>with a drop overlay that is blue for drinking_water=yes [^1] and grey
>>>for drinking_water=no [^2].
>>
>>
>> Yes in order to have a clear pattern for tagging these "water delivering"
>> items, we need to separate the physical aspect from the quality of water
>> provided.
>>
>> Physical aspect would be : water_wells, drinking_foutains --> good for the
>> user to know if he can easily drink or fill a bottle or connect a hose etc..
>>
>> Quality of water would be : drinking_water=yes/no; mineral_water=yes/no
>>
>> ________________________________
>> De : Selfish Seahorse <selfishseahorse at gmail.com>
>> Envoyé : mercredi 10 janvier 2018 09:38:00
>> À : Tag discussion, strategy and related tools
>> Objet : Re: [Tagging] Water source types
>>
>> On 10 January 2018 at 01:49, Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl> wrote:
>>> I would say that amenity=drinking_water is a general source of the high
>>> quality water and it would be good to make it more specific if possible -
>>> adding tap, well and pump tags would be nice.
>>
>> Because drinking water is a *property* of sources, water wells,
>> fountains, drinking fountains (bubblers) etc., I think it makes more
>> sense to tag these objects and to add drinking_water=yes tags
>> (discouraging the use of `amenity=drinking_water`).
>>
>> As for the rendering, I like how OsmAnd renders drinking_water=yes/no:
>> with a drop overlay that is blue for drinking_water=yes [^1] and grey
>> for drinking_water=no [^2].
>>
>> [^1]:
>> https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd-resources/blob/master/icons/svg/overlays/drinking_water_yes.svg
>> [^2]:
>> https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd-resources/blob/master/icons/svg/overlays/drinking_water_no.svg
>>
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