Drinking Fountains

🚧 Migration users: United Kingdom
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Hi all. Is there an initiative to start mapping public drinking fountains or water bottle refill stations in OSM?
I see there is a tag for this: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made=drinking_fountain, but I couldn’t see them within OSM data for the areas I downloaded?

For example, I can see there’s a drinking water fountain in this park (google street view link below), but couldn’t see if it’s mapped on OSM?

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4407715,-3.1709327,3a,75y,322.62h,83.14t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sQ6hGoQlzDUSUa9BPjf9Mzg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DQ6hGoQlzDUSUa9BPjf9Mzg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D71.222275%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

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I checked in the data layer and it is not mapped yet. Take a look at the numbers under “taginfo” on the wiki-page. This feature has been mapped 487 times on the whole planet… :frowning: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Ddrinking_water has much more entries (234k).

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Thank you PHerison. That’s interesting to know. Looks like there may be quite a few different ways of tagging the same object. Either way, I don’t think these are mapped and I may need to kick-start the initiative!

If anyone knows of any open source datasets related to drinking water fountains please let me know. I thought that these would be an easy find due to the rise in people opting to use less single-use plastic and re-filling water bottles.