Hi Warin, contents=water seems more appropriate
Thanks, Stuart On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 07:38, Warin <[email protected]> wrote: > So a water tank with drinking water cannot be tagged as drinking water > because there is no local access. Fine. > Then it is only tagged as a tank with contents=water, or should there be > yet another value for it contents=drinking_water? > Or a sub tag water=drinking water... > > > On 21/2/20 5:10 pm, European Water Project wrote: > > Hi Martin, > > There are a couple of issues I see with drinking_water=yes not having a > concept of access. > > 1. Where is the observability ? How can I know if a water tank has > drinking quality water or just agriculture quality water ? > From the wiki : > "One can assume that the water is pure when many people drink it every > day." > This is hard to assume, and one would never know if there is water ... > > 2. But there is an even bigger issue --- and I will admit that I am > biased because of the European Water Project's use case. > For a map feature to be useful, it should have universality. Ie. if one > maps restaurants with toilets, at least customers should have access ... > Someone who goes to the OSM way where there is a water tank, even with a > wallet full of cash, will die of thirst before getting a drink. > It's similar to toilet=yes ... A restaurant with a toilet for employees > only, probably shouldn't have the tag. > Yes, there is an access tag, but in most cases access is implied. > > drinking_water = yes, seems to come with access in 99% of the 61,300 nodes > and the large majority of the 8,178 ways. > > Best regards, > > Stuart > > > > > > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 19:33, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Am Do., 20. Feb. 2020 um 19:14 Uhr schrieb European Water Project < >> [email protected]>: >> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> I have noticed that the the key drinking_water = yes for ways is >>> sometimes used in a manner not described in the wiki. >>> >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key%3Adrinking_water >>> >>> The issue has to do with ways which might store drinking water which is >>> not actually directly accessible. I think this tag should be for >>> accessible water. >>> >> >> >> I don't read from the wiki description that the drinking water must be >> directly accessible. It depends on the context feature. >> >> Cheers >> Martin >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing > [email protected]https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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