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[Warin]

On 3/10/22 23:26, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> 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.
True, but it can be done.
>
> BTW: a shower in many parts of the world may not "waste" drinking 
> water, for example by using rain water.

In some parts of the world rain water is prized. The showers at William 
Creek Hotel, South Australia use bore water, rich in salt. Your towel 
will need a wash after drying yourself, the experienced skip the showers 
there unless your very dirty.

>
> 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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