Key:drinking_water
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Included on other elements to document water drinkability
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This tag has not been formalized by voting. It has usage in the database primarily to indicate if other features also provide drinking water. For example a well may have drinking_water=yes or drinking_water=no (either way it is a well). Similarly for toilets or mountain huts. Where mapping is at a fine level of granularity, it is preferable to mark the individual water sources as nodes and remove this tag from the larger feature.
As such this is one of the few OSM tags that can indicate the _lack_ of a feature you might otherwise expect (for example the rare highway rest area that does not supply drinking water, or the rare mountain hut where you must carry water to it).
See also
- amenity=drinking_water mapping of standalone water sources
Related terms: drinking water. potable water.
