Tag:man_made=water_tap
 man_made = water_tap
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Publicly usable water tap 
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A water tap is a man-made construction providing access to water, supplied by water distribution system (unlike in case of man_made=water_well, where groundwater may be used directly). Taps are suitable for refilling bottles, so bottle_refill=yes should be assumed. The tag man_made=water_tap is used for publicly usable water taps, such as those in the cities and graveyards.
Water taps may provide potable and technical water, which can be specified with drinking_water=yes and drinking_water=no. man_made=water_tap can be used to describe water point (also commonly called drinking water) more in detail.
It should not be used to tag fire hydrants, for which a special emergency=fire_hydrant tag is available. Consider adding also more general amenity=drinking_water where it is drinkable water.
Water tap can be activated by turning handle or pressing button or other method[1] and one of defining requirements is that user interacts with it to start water flow[2]
Note that man_made=drinking_fountain providing tiny upward jet of water does not need to be tagged as a water tap nor does amenity=shower.
Related tags
- drinking_water=*
- man_made=water_well A man made excavation in the ground to gain water from an aquifer.
- man_made=drinking_fountain Provides a small jet of drinking water.
- natural=spring Water flowing out of the ground. May have a fountain built around it (see Roman Bath in Bath, U.K).
- amenity=drinking_water
Examples
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public press button water tap, Florence, Italy |
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Not all water taps provide drinking water. It is useful to add drinking_water=no or amenity=drinking_water to them. |
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This 'bubbler' is also considered by some as water tap as it is activated by its user[3]. This is controversial as the 'tap' component is a valve that also occurs in amenity=shower and there is no suggestion that showers need to be mapped as a 'tap'. Some consider this would be better mapped as man_made=drinking_fountain particularly as 'bubbler' is not British English and only used in some locations none of which are entire countries. |
public press button/Delay Action Watersaving water tap, at the amenity=sanitary_dump_station of Air de Valuéjols, France.
Classic public water tap, Le Mont-Saint-Michel, France. For working one additional tags fitting it would be fountain=drinking and amenity=drinking_water. Stevea says yes to amenity=drinking_water but no to fountain=drinking because of the downward-pointing spout. If there were such a tag as water_fixture=hose_bib it would apply here. (I'm trying to share my knowledge of English about these things).
Plastic taps, widely used in India for their low cost.
Old metal taps were often part of decoration as this one in Fužine castle backyard, Slovenia.
Similar features
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Drinking water signs
ISO 7010 sign E015
France
Belarus
Ukraine
Russia
Slovenia
United States
United States (Ohio)
Not drinking water signs
ISO 7010 sign P005
Canada (Québec)
Germany
United States (California)
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Rendering
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See also
- Proposal page
- Standpipe (street) on Wikipedia
- emergency=fire_hydrant
- amenity=water_point -for 'large amounts' of water e.g. to a caravan.
- waterway=water_point - for 'large amounts' of water to a boat.
- amenity=drinking_water - non specific other than 'drinking'. Could be a tap or something else.
- handle=* - specify type of handle used to activate/regulate water flow
- fountain=bottle_refill - Indicates whether a water bottle can easily be filled.