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Whew! Couple of hours cycling and tracking and taking notes today in almost 30°C weather. Too hot for a Finn like myself, although you get a nice breeze when you are cycling. And my main goal was to map amenity=drinking_water places so that helped me to stay well hydrated through out the day. And I went swimming afterwards to the ocean.

What a great hobby for an outdoorsy person and you get to know your area really well, even I go to places I have never been to in this 15k pop. town.

Location: Pietola, Uusikaupunki, Vakka-Suomi sub-region, Southwest Finland, Mainland Finland, 23500, Finland
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Comment from philippec on 25 July 2018 at 14:28

It is amazing how neglected drinking water fountains are by mappers.

Comment from weareborg on 28 July 2018 at 21:52

Yeah, I thought they’d be appreciated by tourists. I don’t know which maps show drinking water nodes. Nodes with https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity_drinking=water and https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made=water_tap are shown in OSM, but https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=water_points are not. None of these were drinking fountains. One was clearly a tap for small amounts in a marketplace, one was in the harbor with long hoses for boats and other were also in the harbors, but not meant to fill tanks. I think they are used mostly by people who have a summer cabin with no running water. And one was a tap in the side of the water purification plant :D

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