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An interesting collective of comments on 'bubbler' from Australia

https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/aus/word/map/search/word/bubbler/The%20Riverina/


On 1/10/22 11:03, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> sent from a phone
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>> On 1 Oct 2022, at 02:38, stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:
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>> There's water_tap, there's fountain (water fountains, same as drinking fountains / bubblers, not the same as big fountains in the park or Las Vegas), there's bubblers, are we (largely?) on the same page about these?!  Good discussion so far!
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> there is also a whole tagging scheme for all of this.
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> amenity=drinking_water
> fountain=drinking/bubbler/…
> drinking_water=yes/no/…
> man_made=water_tap
> amenity=watering_place
> amenity=fountain
> …
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> the tags can be combined to get to a useful description.
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> FWIW, the water tap tag is often used for water that is not potable (because otherwise the standard is amenity=drinking_water


amenity=drinking_water does not signify a tap, nor a bubbler nor a 
stream, nor a spring nor a pond .. it could be any of those and more .. 
a 'well' for instance.

All amenity=drinking_water implies is 'drinking_water=yes', and 
hopefully the legal status too.


Only ~16% of man_made=water_tap carry the tag 'drinking_water=no'. I 
don't think that supports the comment 'often used for water that is not 
potable'.

See 
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/man_made%3Dwater_tap#combinations 
for more.


A bubbler would normally be drinking water and have a tap. A shower too 
would normally be drinking water and have one or more taps. I don't 
think that the tag 'man_made=water_tap' should be applied to these things.


A web comparison of 'bubbler' vs 'drinking  fountain' 
https://www.dictionary.com/compare-words/bubbler-vs-water%20fountain?root=bubbler 


I do like the distinction that a bubbler 'spouts water' where as a 
drinking fountain 'supplies water'. It is the "upward" 'spout' that 
makes human drinking easier.


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Tagging combinations can get overly verbose?


man_made=water_tap
drinking_water=yes
material=brass

should not need added tags to further describe the water  .. such as

amenity=drinking_water ... I think this is just tagging for the render, possibly necessary for some.

And then adding

fountain=drinking ... adds no new information?