Hello Warin, Some fountains can be both historical, artistic or cultural AND dispense potable water.
And these should be tagged amenity=fountain drinking_water = yes Best regards, Stuart On Mon, Feb 3, 2020, 09:59 Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/2/20 7:00 pm, European Water Project wrote: > > Hi Warin, > > amenity=fountain is the tag for the object itself and is a descriptive tag > of the object itself independent of whether the water is potable or not. > It should be used for fountains of historic, artistic or cultural > importance. > > > The request is for a fountain of utilitarian purpose, not historic, > artistic or cultural. > > > I use amenity=fountain for fountains that are not for drinking, but for > decoration. > > > > drinking_water = yes describes the drinkable quality of the water. > > Best regards, > > Stuart > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2020, 08:32 Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 3/2/20 5:49 pm, European Water Project wrote: >> >> amenity = fountain >> drinking_water=yes >> >> Is the best way to tag this. >> >> >> The summary for amenity=fountain says: >> >> "A fountain for cultural / decorational / recreational purposes. >> >> This might range from the usual fountain that you'll find in lots of city >> centers, up to large fountains like the Trevi Fountain in Rome that can act >> as a landmark and is also a tourism >> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:tourism>=attraction >> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dattraction>. >> >> The water of those fountains is often not suitable for drinking. " >> >> >> I don't think amenity=fountain is suitable at all for drinking fountains. >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 3, 2020, 00:35 Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 3/2/20 8:29 am, António Madeira wrote: >>> > Hi there. >>> > >>> > In Portugal and most Mediterranean countries, there are literally >>> > thousands of fountains that are not decorative like those examples at >>> > the bottom of the wiki page: >>> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dfountain >>> > >>> > I'm talking about fountains that exist in every small village or even >>> at >>> > the side of the road, like these: >>> > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loriga_-_Fontan%C3%A1rio.JPG >>> > >>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S%C3%A3o_Jo%C3%A3o_das_Lampas_Fontan%C3%A1rio.jpg >>> > >>> > >>> > What's the best way of tagging these fountains? They're not decorative, >>> > they're utilitarian architectonic structures made to deliver drinking >>> > water. >>> > amenity=fountain doesn't seem to fit here, neither >>> > amenity=drinking_water. >>> >>> >>> amenity=drinking_water is used for; >>> >>> streams that people drink from >>> >>> wells that people drink from >>> >>> taps that people drink from >>> >>> blubbers that people drink from >>> >>> fountains that people drink from >>> >>> >>> As such it is very non descriptive! More of a property key like >>> drinking_water=yes. >>> >>> >>> Some alternatives? >>> >>> man_made=drinking _fountain. Not popular for some, warning I made it. >>> >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain >>> >>> >>> See also >>> >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dwater_tap >>> >>> >>> >>> > I know that we can use fountain=* in both tags, but which one? >>> > >>> > Regards. >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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