[Tagging] OSM Wiki

stevea steveaOSM at softworkers.com
Sat Oct 1 06:56:33 UTC 2022


Some of this I know, some of this we (maybe now) know better because of your sharpening of focus.  Thanks, Martin!  That's a nice, rich list of six separate tags that mean six separate things.  Related, many can agree, sometimes sensibly combined, though often not.

> On Sep 30, 2022, at 6:03 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> there is also a whole tagging scheme for all of this.
>> the tags can be combined to get to a useful description.

Very much agree, we can use "one or more" to be specific.  Or not.

> FWIW, the water tap tag is often used for water that is not potable (because otherwise the standard is amenity=drinking_water

Agreed, that is the "potable tag" I know best, thanks for saying that's true for you, too.


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