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Some work for the OpenStreetMap community in 2024… 😀🚰 (en.osm.town)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some work for the OpenStreetMap community in 2024… 😀🚰

“Free drinking water soon available in Belgium's 100 largest train stations”: https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/810782/free-drinking-water-soon-available-in-belgiums-100-largest-train-stations-tbtb

So, how would you tag this ?

amenity=drinking_water
fountain=bottle_refill
access=yes
wheelchair=yes
fee=no
operator=NMBS/SNCB

#OpenStreetMap #Belgium #water #SNCB #NMBS

cc: @openstreetmap

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'd tag it like this

man_made=water_tap
drinking_water=yes
fountain=bottle_refill
access=yes
wheelchair=yes
fee=no
operator=NMBS/SNCB

I wouldn't use amenity=drinking_water since it seems hard to drink from those stations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

amenity=drinking_water is a place where you can get drinking water. There is no requirement to be able to drink directly from the water jet. Even more, the 'fountain=bottle_refill' makes it clear that this is not possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

@Doudouosm @openstreetmap I've already mapped the one in #brugge : https://dev.mapcomplete.org/drinking_water.html?z=17.9&lat=51.1974274683557&lon=3.2177549901334714#node/11374108813

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

@pietervdvn @Doudouosm @openstreetmap shouldn't this be mapped as a "man_made=water_tap"? It seems pretty hard to drink directly from those machines, I wouldn't map them as a drinking point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have some more time. The tag literally reads "amenity=drinking_water", meaning that one can get drinking water for personal use here. It does not imply the physical form of this, e.g. if it is a bubbler fountain or a water tap. In either case, the tagging for the wide variety of items isn't very consistent...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@pietervdvn I see your point and I have to agree with your analysis. But, I think that adding a man_made=water_tap could be useful to differentiate it from a natural spring (even if we have a dedicated tag for those).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yes, I looked into this as well, but there are apperently quite a few, contradictory ways to do this...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

@mannivu @Doudouosm @openstreetmap eh, maybe? Maybe discuss this on the issue tracker...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

@Doudouosm @openstreetmap (i happened to see it in another toot, while in the train station...)