On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 20:54, António Madeira <antoniomade...@gmx.com> wrote:
> I did read the description closely, and what I said still applies: in > Portugal it is a fountain in the way it is described in Britain, an > amenity=fountain with no drinking water. > I think we may be talking past each other again. That's what I'm trying to explain from the beginning: it doesn't matter if > it has drinking water or not, it will always be a fountain. > Which is the case in Britain for ornamental/decorative fountains. Regardless of whether or not they supply drinking water, they're fountains. But utilitarian drinking fountains, of the kind found in schools, are not "fountains" in normal British English usage. > But in the cases (the majority of them) that they have, we should be > allowed to apply the drinking_water=yes, regardless if in Britain that's > not the case. > It is the case in Britain that if an ornamental fountain supplies drinking water then the tag drinking_water=yes should be applied. I don't think anyone said otherwise, or that you shouldn't apply drinking_water=yes to fountains in Portugal. The only thing that may be different is that Britain may not have as many ornamental fountains that supply drinking water as Portugal does. This way, everyone is happy: you still call it fountain in Britain, and I > still call it fountain in Spain, Italy, France, Portugal or wherever, with > the difference that the chance of them having potable water is higher. > It doesn't matter which country the fountain is in. If it supplies potable water then add drinking_water=yes and if it doesn't supply potable water then don't add drinking_water=yes (perhaps even add drinking_water=no if most ornamental fountains in the area supply drinking water. What I was objecting to was the idea that in some countries amenity=fountain is assumed to supply drinking water by default. It needs an explicit drinking_water=yes. -- Paul
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