Proposal:Water tap

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The Feature Page for the approved proposal water_tap is located at Tag:man_made=water_tap
Officially non-potable water tap in Frejus, France
Water tap description


water_tap
Proposal status: Approved (active)
Proposed by: Kotya
Tagging: man_made=water_tap
Applies to: node
Definition: For all kinds of water taps
Statistics:

Rendered as: picture (water tap without glass)
Draft started: 2014-09-01
RFC start: 2014-10-10
Vote start: 2014-12-30
Vote end: 2015-01-15


Proposal

This is a proposal for tagging of (publicly usable) water taps, such as those in the cities and graveyards. Water taps may provide potable and technical water, which can then be further specified with drinking_water=yes|no.

Tagging

The proposal is to introduce a man_made=water_tap tag.

It will be analogous to man_made=water_well and combinable with drinking_water=*.

It should not be used to tag fire hydrants, for which a special emergency=fire_hydrant tag is available.

Rationale

The aim of this proposal is to address issues discussed in the help site[1][2] and in the forum[3]. In summary, there is currently no way to describe a water tap providing non-drinking water.

It will also be used to tag a source of potentially potable water if potability is not known and thus amenity=drinking_water cannot be used.

This tag would supplement:

  • natural=spring Water flowing out of the ground. May have a fountain built around it (see Roman Bath in Bath, U.K)
  • man_made=water_well A man made excavation in the ground to gain water from an aquifer.
  • amenity=drinking_water Location of a tap or other source of potable drinking water
  • pump=*

Need for this tag

Currently more than 600 elements could have been marked better if this value existed:

Element Number of use cases Link
Name = Water tap 59 https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=water_tap#values
seamark:small_craft_facility:category = water_tap 24 https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=water_tap#values
Name = Tap water 13 -
Name = tap water 24 https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=water_tap#values
Name = water tap 7 https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=water_tap#values
Name = Water Tap 6 https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=water_tap#values
Tap = yes 351 https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/tap#values
Facilities = Tap water 2 https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=water_tap#values
_Descrip_ = Public water tap (not good for drinking) 7 https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=water_tap#values
yes 73 https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/harbour%3Awater_tap#values
node name = tap 49 https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/name=Tap
value = tap 6 https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/waterpoint_type#values

Voting

Note: Voting was closed on 2015-01-15 with 11 approval votes and 5 opposing votes.

If you vote against the proposal and you haven't participated in the discussion in tagging (at) openstreetmap.org, please post a message there too explaining your reasoning.

References