On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 18:10, António Madeira <antoniomade...@gmx.com> wrote:
> > If you come to Portugal and want to find drinkin water, you should know > that most fountains have drinking water, like I need to know the opposite > when I go to the UK. > But OSM maps can be viewed from anywhere in the world by people planning trips. It's better that tags mean the same thing everywhere. Otherwise you have to check what each country means by each tag. Yes, that example in Portugal that's a fountain (a decorative/historic) > If you had read the description closely, you'd have been able to work out that it was originally a decorative drinking fountain. Current legislation means that the water is no longer considered potable so it is now just a decorative fountain. If it says not do drink water from it, we simply use amenity=fountain. Like > you. > Only if it has potable water we could add drinking_water=yes. > That's all I was ever saying: amenity=fountain doesn't imply the water is drinkable because the tag values are in British English. If it also supplies drinking water then add drinking_water=yes. If there is no drinking_water tag then the default is that it is not drinkable. That way we have a standard way of tagging things. You may also need to make use of drinking_water:legal=no on some fountains. I wouldn't use it myself because it implies the water is drinkable but not certified as drinkable and I'd be worried about the legal consequences of making such a claim. -- Paul
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