[Tagging] Water source types

[Daniel Koć]

W dniu 11.01.2018 o 22:45, Martin Koppenhoefer pisze:

> On 11. Jan 2018, at 22:14, Selfish Seahorse 
> <selfishseahorse at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?

Thanks, I support this idea. If the discussion comes around, it means 
that the wiki needs some work.

> I’m all for tagging details, and if someone wants to add man_made or other tags to an amenity=drinking_water he should do it, but I don’t want to require it. (We’re using “fountain=<type>” around here to tag subtypes of drinking fountains)
>
> amenity=drinking_water works for me, and it is widely in use, to discourage its use in the wiki you would need more than a discussion of a handful of people on this list.

This list is meant exactly for discussing such things - if not here, 
then where?

Discouraging will not make it disappear over night (or even a year!), so 
I feel safe about it.

It's important to add typical examples with 
man_made=water_tap/water_well/* + drinking_water=yes/potable/* as 
preferable solutions and check again after some time how is it going. In 
the worst case the transition will stop at some point (probably taps, 
wells and pumps are the majority of such sources), but we will have more 
specific tagging in many cases by then, so it would be still a positive 
change.

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