Ah, the wheel has turned full circle. We had this same discussion a couple of years ago.
IMHO "potable" is the right answer, but amazingly, although everyone who joined the discussion knew what it meant, they all thought it shouldn't be used in case someone didn't know. Best wishes, Andrew On 27/02/2014, Dave Swarthout <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the term "drinkable" might be more attractive because it is so > closely related to the term "drinking_water" — it's a logical extension of > the top level amenity tag: > amenity=drinking_water (drinkability=yes assumed) > to different water sources such as fountains, springs and water wells. > > Potable is an English word derived from Latin and its meaning is perhaps > not obvious to non-native English speakers whereas drinkable doesn't suffer > as much from that limitation. > > Regards, > Dave > > > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> "potable" seems a less ambiguous term. >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:drinking_water has tagging >> momentum. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> > > > -- > Dave Swarthout > Homer, Alaska > Chiang Mai, Thailand > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
