I can not agree with deleting this tag while the rest of the tagging for drinking water is such a mess. It feels as if you're concentrating on an ant in the corner of the room while ignoring the dancing elephant in the middle of the room.
Do feel it should eventually be deleted, but as part of sorting out issues with using "fountain" and "drinking fountain" sharing part of the same tag. They're different entities, in the way "park" and "car park" are different. I've just noticed there is a bubbler tag being promoted? Which appears to be an American English term for a British English drinking fountain. Why promote another term, and use an American English term. What was wrong with calling a drinking fountain a drinking fountain? As I'm writing this, I'm also looking at the wiki and realising it's even more complex than I thought when I first started. I'll go off and read some more, but I'm beginning to think the only solution would be depreciating the whole subject area (not possible) and starting again. Jass On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 at 13:51, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging < tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > I am not entirely how to solve various issues surrounding drinking water > terminology > (help highly welcomed!) but it is now really clear to me that > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain > is not helpful at all and it should be marked as deprecated > > - many drinking fountains are eligible for man_made=water_tap > - it duplicates https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Dbubbler > - as stated this tag is equivalent to > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Dbubbler > but there are also water fountain which are not emitting > upward jet of water in the air > > So we have tag which for many (all?) features collides with better > established tag AND it is duplicated AND it is poorly named AND it is > rarely used > AND it introduces confusion. > > Can we mark it as deprecated and recommend not using it? > With replacement of man_made=water_tap where applicable - which is > likely for all cases or almost all cases. > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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