A practical comment from an end user: it is helpful to know if a drinking-water point can be used to fill water bottles. Bubblers are tricky in that regard.
BTW: a shower in many parts of the world may not "waste" drinking water, for example by using rain water. On Mon, 3 Oct 2022, 13:47 Warin, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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: > > > > sent from a phone > > > >> On 1 Oct 2022, at 02:38, stevea <[email protected]> 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. > > > -------------------- > > 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? > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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