Dear Paul, The example you use is a very good one, but not necessarily for the reason you intended.
The fountain in the picture you show is an old style fountain with a drinking cup who style was banned by Federal Regulation in the US in 1912 due to its unsanitary nature. I would therefore tag this fountain as amenity=fountain + drinking_water=no Best Regards, Stuart This old drinking fountain is harder to classify: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fountain_Snow_Hill_Samuel_Gurney..jpg Technically just a drinking fountain but it is rather decorative. Is it amenity=water or amenity=fountain + drinking_water=yes? On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 23:56, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 22:39, António Madeira <antoniomade...@gmx.com> > wrote: > >> Ok, let's stay in the same page then. :) >> Regarding schools, I don't know what you mean, because here, schools dont >> have fountains, just taps and those of the bubbler type (maybe old century >> schools have fountains in their yards or something similar). >> > > Bubbler appears to be a name I'm unfamiliar with for a drinking fountain. > One > of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bubbler.jpg It's not > ornamental or > decorative. It's a drinking fountain, not a fountain. > > This old drinking fountain is harder to classify: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fountain_Snow_Hill_Samuel_Gurney..jpg > Technically just a drinking fountain but it is rather decorative. Is it > amenity=water or amenity=fountain + drinking_water=yes? > > This was assumed from my side since the beginning. What spurred me to >> start this thread was that the element "fountain" in Portuguese iD was >> translated as "decoration fountain" and the wiki seemed to support that >> distinction. >> > > But that's pretty much how British English sees it: fountains are primarily > ornamental/decorative. They may incidentally provide drinking water or > they > may not. Remember that what you call a bubbler is what we call a drinking > fountain. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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