Re: [Tagging] .Re: tagging drinking water of unclear official (signed)
It's not US English, it's just a misspelling yielding a wrong word. The correct word is 'potable' on this side of the pond as well. On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 8:14 AM Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 7. Sep 2020, at 13:52, Peter Neale wrote: > > > > I'm not arguing against "drinking water", just against "portable water" > (water that can be carried) > > > sorry for posting in reply to you, it was meant more generally as > responding to the warming up of a discussion about the words used in the > main tags. > > Cheers Martin > ___ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
Re: [Tagging] .Re: tagging drinking water of unclear official (signed)
sent from a phone > On 7. Sep 2020, at 13:52, Peter Neale wrote: > > I'm not arguing against "drinking water", just against "portable water" > (water that can be carried) sorry for posting in reply to you, it was meant more generally as responding to the warming up of a discussion about the words used in the main tags. Cheers Martin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
Re: [Tagging] .Re: tagging drinking water of unclear official (signed)
I'm not arguing against "drinking water", just against "portable water" (water that can be carried) Peter Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 at 11:42, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: sent from a phone On 7. Sep 2020, at 07:55, Peter Neale via Tagging wrote: I dont know about the USA, but in British English, "portable" means that it can be carried. If you can drink it, it is "potable". we‘ve had this discussion 10 years ago and the decision was for drinking_water=* https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=drinking_water https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=drink https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=potable There’s no benefit from changing established tagging, and there were reasons for choosing drinking water rather than potable water. Cheers Martin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
Re: [Tagging] .Re: tagging drinking water of unclear official (signed)
sent from a phone > On 7. Sep 2020, at 07:55, Peter Neale via Tagging > wrote: > > I dont know about the USA, but in British English, "portable" means that it > can be carried. > > If you can drink it, it is "potable". we‘ve had this discussion 10 years ago and the decision was for drinking_water=* https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=drinking_water https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=drink https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=potable There’s no benefit from changing established tagging, and there were reasons for choosing drinking water rather than potable water. Cheers Martin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
[Tagging] .Re: tagging drinking water of unclear official (signed)
I dont know about the USA, but in British English, "portable" means that it can be carried. If you can drink it, it is "potable". >Message: 5 >Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 01:57:56 +0300 >From: 80hnhtv4a...@bk.ru >To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" > >Subject: Re: [Tagging] tagging drinking >water of uncleaer official (signed) status >Message-ID: ><1599433076.146027...@f540.i.mail.ru> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >in the united states we say (portable) >>Sunday, September 6, 2020 5:52 PM -05:00 from Martin Koppenhoefer >>>: >> >> >> >>sent from a phone >> >>> On 6. Sep 2020, at 21:04, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging < >>> tagging@openstreetmap.org > wrote: >>> >>> That redefines drinking_water:legal=yes which currently is described as >>> including >>> places where status is not explicitly signed but is known to be good >>> (examples >>> may include water fountains setup and maintained by city). >> >>why not use >>drinking_water=yes for these? >> >> >>Cheers Martin >> ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
