In Switzerland there are so many natural sources around, that you barely have to bring a bottle and can just take a sip of every source you pass. Typically these natural sources are guided via piping so you can easily use the water, http://sehenswertes.ch/Sehenswertes/schweiz/Doerfer/Schornen/Brunnen/Bildergalerie/SDC14131.JPG.
If you take a radius of 10 km around Zürich city center, there are 1044 drinking water points available 😊. http://ausleuchtung.ch/travel_pack/?lat=47.372454125432945&lon=8.542385101318361&zm=14&rd=10&sk=amenity&sv=drinking_water&t=0 My prefered method of finding them ‘in the field’ on Android is OSMand, which I typically have running whenever I hike or cycle anyway. With the POI search ‘drinking’ you can display the drinking water POIs on the map to see which one is nearest or most convenient for your direction of travel. When I plan routes in advance I use https://www.komoot.com, which lets you display the drinking water POIs and use them as routing points easily. The amount of drinking water PIO on the map of your area off course depends on several factors like (1) availability of natural sources, (2) local culture making them readily accessible and (3) OSM contributors focus for putting them in the OSM database. Here in Switzerland all of these factors are strong, although I find a water point every now and then which is not on the map yet. Cheers, dikkeknodel Van: Warin<mailto:61sundow...@gmail.com> Verzonden: maandag 4 juni 2018 11:43 Aan: talk@openstreetmap.org<mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org> Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] finding drinking water with an Android app On 04/06/18 18:51, Maarten Deen wrote: > Less than a second to something usable? Sure, it displays the O logo > within a second, but on my phone (quad core 1.3 GHz ARM Cortex A7) it > takes about 10 seconds to get to anything usable. +1 .. probably 30 seconds on my old phone with a map of some 200M. > > And about the OSM quality... There is one drinking water POI mapped > near to me, but I hardly think that's an official public tap. I rather > suspect that's someone's home garden tap. > Well, it would do the job I guess ;) That is not quality but a lack of information. Around me public bubblers are found in most public playgrounds, some parks (50%?), some public squares (40%?). Very much depends on the local climate .. if you can open your mouth and get a drink there is not much point in providing another water source :) > > Maarten > > On 2018-06-04 10:29, Philip Barnes wrote: >> OSMand starts for me in less than a second, however the nearest >> drinking water is 150 miles away. Not many mapped and actually >> struggling to think where I would find one. >> >> Phil (trigpoint) >> >> On 3 June 2018 19:29:24 BST, Maarten Deen <md...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Mateusz Konieczny >>> <matkoni...@tutanota.com> wrote: >>> >>> 3. Jun 2018 18:05 by ba...@ursamundi.org: >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 10:54 AM, Mateusz Konieczny >>> <matkoni...@tutanota.com> wrote: >>> >>> I am looking for an application for Android displaying >>> amenity=drinking_water >>> >>> locations with available offline map - I am frequently using it to >>> avoid buying plastic bottles >>> >>> just to almost immediately throw it out. >>> >>> Any simple open source map displaying locations of some objects >>> >>> would also be great - it should be fairly simple to adapt. >>> >>> Osmand displays and can find drinking water. >>> >>> In my experience OSMand starts for a long time, like maps.me [1]. Is >>> at least search >>> not taking any noticeable time? >> >> Startup of OSMand takes quite some time yes, it annoys me too. >> Searching >> in the datafile of the Netherlands, some 850 MB, also takes a few >> seconds. It is certainly not instant and if your impatient it can be a >> >> bother. >> But it does not take minutes. >> >> Maarten >> >> ------------------------- >> >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> -- >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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