How to find public drinking fountains when travelling?

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With a web-based Openstreetmap interface, one can use taginfo.openstreetmap.org. For example, here is the taginfo for amenity=drinking_water. From there, one can click on Overpass turbo in the top right to be directed to https://overpass-turbo.eu/. Pan and zoom the map to the area of interest and click Run.

For example, this is the result near Barcelona Sants station:

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Or in central Frankfurt, where Openstreetmap contains no results near the main train station:

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Through the export-button, you can download a GPX file that you can download into a handheld GNSS-capable device.

Relevant comment by nrainer:

If you are using OsmAnd you can also show the information on the map by searching for "drinking water" and clicking on the button "show on map".

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