On 16-Jan-18 02:44 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2018-01-13 1:22 GMT+01:00 Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com
<mailto:61sundow...@gmail.com>>:
No.
A tap cannot be easily drunk from ... you need a cup/hand to divert the
water to your mouth.
A drinking fountain has a jet of water that can be intercepted by your
mouth - no cup required.
A tap can easily be used to fill a container.
A drinking fountain cannot easily be used to fill a container.
See the OSMwiki for physical structures?
these are all relative, while not everyone might be able to drink from
a tap, my three year old can without making himself wet, so it can't
be that hard.
The most typical drinking fountain around here looks like this:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Nasona_a_via_annia_faustina_2.JPG
I would find that difficult to drink from .... Have to get on my hands
and knees, rotate head at least 90 degrees ... not easy. Far easier with
a cup/bottle.
The young are far more flexible than the old.
if you don't have a cup, you can block the water at the end of the
tube and it will jet out of the tiny hole in the middle of the tube.
Arr ... so a wet hand/thumb.
To me this is a combination of tap and drinking fountain.
A tap is only working acceptably well for filling a container if there
is sufficient pressure in the tubes, not a given in arid areas in the
summer.
As well as pressure there is a minimum rate of flow. You can have high
pressure but only a drop per hour.
So I think you mean flow rate rather than pressure.
Those drinking fountains linked above are comparable to a water tap
with regard to filling a container.
Don't assume that this kind of feature is similar in all of its
aspects around the world. E.g. the requirements for a drinking
fountain are that you can drink and that it is made for drinking. It
doesn't have implications whether you can fill a container or not.
I have recently seen a photo of a drinking fountain with a sign "not for
drinking" .. I think it is some legal thing only, most would drink from
it directly.
There are water tanks along the Larapinta Trail and they all have a
warning about treat the water before drinking, yet lots of people drink
without treatment and without harm.
These are all taps - no drinking fountains out there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larapinta_Trail
Some American tourist on a day walk out there died from lack of water
recently, less than 1 km from a water tank ... yes it is in OSM.
OSMand renders the water source there ... would have to check the tagging.
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