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fshafique

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2009-10-21

Posts: 2

Drinking Water Fountains, Public Washrooms

I'm new to OpenStreetMap, and love the idea already.

I was trying to add water fountain locations to the map, but couldn't find any in the legends in Potlatch.
Can we add water fountains, and if so, how?

If not, I'd like to suggest two new icons, one for drinking water fountains, and another for public washrooms.

PHerison

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From: Rhein-Main

Registered: 2008-04-04

Posts: 1,770

Re: Drinking Water Fountains, Public Washrooms

I don't think Potlatch has presets for this features. Nevertheless you can always add tags to a node / way by pressing "+" or clicking on the "+"-Icon

Here are some tags for drinking water and fountains.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag: … king_water
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag: … 3Dfountain

A tag for public washrooms, showers ot bath I don't know.

Last edited by PHerison (2009-10-22 10:43:36)

Pontiac_CZ

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Registered: 2009-10-07

Posts: 13

Re: Drinking Water Fountains, Public Washrooms

But at the same time you should know that amenity=fountain is not rendered in OSM (don't know if amenity=drinking_water is the same case but I guess so). You may put it in, but you won't see it in the maps at any zoom.

PHerison

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From: Rhein-Main

Registered: 2008-04-04

Posts: 1,770

Re: Drinking Water Fountains, Public Washrooms

But at the same time you should know that amenity=fountain is not rendered in OSM

They are:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.19 … rs=0B00FTF
Mapnik is not the only renderer for OSM-Data!

fshafique

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2009-10-21

Posts: 2

Re: Drinking Water Fountains, Public Washrooms

Here are some tags for drinking water and fountains.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag: … king_water

Thanks! Precisely what I was looking for. And I'll soon start populating the map with drinking-water points.
I hate carrying a water bottle with me on jogs, and instead rely on known drinking-water spots to get hydrated.

Pontiac_CZ

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Registered: 2009-10-07

Posts: 13

Re: Drinking Water Fountains, Public Washrooms

Oops :-) Yes, I should specify I was talking about Mapnik which is still my favourite. Only lacks some details....