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[Volker Schmidt]

A practical comment from an end user: it is helpful to know if a
drinking-water point can be used to fill water bottles. Bubblers are tricky
in that regard.

BTW: a shower in many parts of the world may not "waste" drinking water,
for example by using rain water.

On Mon, 3 Oct 2022, 13:47 Warin, <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > sent from a phone
> >
> >> On 1 Oct 2022, at 02:38, stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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!
> >
> > there is also a whole tagging scheme for all of this.
> >
> > amenity=drinking_water
> > fountain=drinking/bubbler/…
> > drinking_water=yes/no/…
> > man_made=water_tap
> > amenity=watering_place
> > amenity=fountain
> > …
> >
> > the tags can be combined to get to a useful description.
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> --------------------
>
> 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?
>
>
>
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