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Use more common name for man_made=water_works #1115

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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion data/presets/man_made/water_works.json
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"tags": {
"man_made": "water_works"
},
"name": "Water Works"
"aliases": [
"Potable Water Treatment Plant",
"Water Works"
],
"name": "Water Treatment Plant"
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Interesting, I’m personally more familiar with the term “water works” than “water treatment plant”. At least in my corner of the Midwest, we’d call it a “water works” even if its official name includes “Water Treatment Plant”, and even if hasn’t been one since the 1950s. “Water treatment plant” would be easily misunderstood as a wastewater treatment plant.

Google Ngrams Viewer says “water treatment plant” has always been obscure but “water works” had a moment around the turn of the last century. Maybe we’re missing another common term, or maybe it’s one of those concepts with hopelessly regional terms.

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I can't comment on which terms is more common in US English, but assuming that there's no clearly preferred one: we could just keep Water Works as the default label (as it is less likely to be confused with waste water treatment plant) and have Water Treatment Plant as the alias. What do you think?

PS: I also found Drinking Water Treatment Plant to be more common on google search results compared to Potable Water Treatment Plant, maybe those two could be search terms?

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I tried doing this in #1256

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