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:
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On 1 Oct 2022, at 02:38, stevea <stevea...@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.
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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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