On 3/10/22 23:26, Volker Schmidt wrote:
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.
True, but it can be done.
BTW: a shower in many parts of the world may not "waste" drinking
water, for example by using rain water.
In some parts of the world rain water is prized. The showers at William
Creek Hotel, South Australia use bore water, rich in salt. Your towel
will need a wash after drying yourself, the experienced skip the showers
there unless your very dirty.
On Mon, 3 Oct 2022, 13:47 Warin, <61sundow...@gmail.com> 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 <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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