Tag:amenity=water_point

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Description
A place where you can get large amounts of drinking water for refilling fresh water holding tanks. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: amenities
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Implies
Status: de facto

This tag is for places where you can get larger amounts of "drinking water" for filling a fresh water holding tank, such as found on caravans, RVs and boats. Useful in particular inside a tourism=camp_site, tourism=caravan_site. For use inside leisure=marina see waterway=water_point.

How to map

Place a node node at the location of the water point, and add the tag amenity=water_point to it.

See also

Attribute Tagging

Drinking water road signs

Common/possible tagging mistakes

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