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shaunlewis

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Registered: 2016-05-06

Posts: 3

Drinking Fountains

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 … g_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 … 312!8i6656

PHerison

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From: Rhein-Main

Registered: 2008-04-04

Posts: 1,741

Re: Drinking Fountains

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... https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag … king_water has much more entries (234k).

Last edited by PHerison (2021-06-23 16:54:17)

shaunlewis

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Registered: 2016-05-06

Posts: 3

Re: Drinking Fountains

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.