[Tagging] Water source types

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 15:44:05 UTC 2018


2018-01-13 1:22 GMT+01:00 Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com>:

> No.
>
> A tap cannot be easily drunk from ... you need a cup/hand to divert the water to your mouth.
>
> A drinking fountain has a jet of water that can be intercepted by your mouth - no cup required.
>
> A tap can easily be used to fill a container.
>
> A drinking fountain cannot easily be used to fill a container.
>
> See the OSMwiki for physical structures?
>
>

these are all relative, while not everyone might be able to drink from a
tap, my three year old can without making himself wet, so it can't be that
hard.

The most typical drinking fountain around here looks like this:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Nasona_a_via_annia_faustina_2.JPG
if you don't have a cup, you can block the water at the end of the tube and
it will jet out of the tiny hole in the middle of the tube.

A tap is only working acceptably well for filling a container if there is
sufficient pressure in the tubes, not a given in arid areas in the summer.

Those drinking fountains linked above are comparable to a water tap with
regard to filling a container.

Don't assume that this kind of feature is similar in all of its aspects
around the world. E.g. the requirements for a drinking fountain are that
you can drink and that it is made for drinking. It doesn't have
implications whether you can fill a container or not.

Cheers,
Martin
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