[OSM-talk] finding drinking water with an Android app

[Warin]

On 04/06/18 18:51, Maarten Deen wrote:
> Less than a second to something usable? Sure, it displays the O logo 
> within a second, but on my phone (quad core 1.3 GHz ARM Cortex A7) it 
> takes about 10 seconds to get to anything usable.
+1 .. probably 30 seconds on my old phone with a map of some 200M.
>
> And about the OSM quality... There is one drinking water POI mapped 
> near to me, but I hardly think that's an official public tap. I rather 
> suspect that's someone's home garden tap.
> Well, it would do the job I guess ;)
That is not quality but a lack of information.

Around me public bubblers are found in most public playgrounds, some 
parks (50%?), some public squares (40%?).

Very much depends on the local climate .. if you can open your mouth and 
get a drink there is not much point in providing another water source :)

>
> Maarten
>
> On 2018-06-04 10:29, Philip Barnes wrote:
>> OSMand starts for me in less than a second, however the nearest
>> drinking water is 150 miles away. Not many mapped and actually
>> struggling to think where I would find one.
>>
>> Phil (trigpoint)
>>
>> On 3 June 2018 19:29:24 BST, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Mateusz Konieczny
>>> <matkoniecz at tutanota.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 3. Jun 2018 18:05 by baloo at ursamundi.org:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 10:54 AM, Mateusz Konieczny
>>> <matkoniecz at tutanota.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am looking for an application for Android displaying
>>> amenity=drinking_water
>>>
>>> locations with available offline map - I am frequently using it to
>>> avoid buying plastic bottles
>>>
>>> just to almost immediately throw it out.
>>>
>>> Any simple open source map displaying locations of some objects
>>>
>>> would also be great - it should be fairly simple to adapt.
>>>
>>> Osmand displays and can find drinking water.
>>>
>>> In my experience OSMand starts for a long time, like maps.me [1]. Is
>>> at least search
>>> not taking any noticeable time?
>>
>> Startup of OSMand takes quite some time yes, it annoys me too.
>> Searching
>> in the datafile of the Netherlands, some 850 MB, also takes a few
>> seconds. It is certainly not instant and if your impatient it can be a
>>
>> bother.
>> But it does not take minutes.
>>
>> Maarten
>>
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