in my experience, small steps are more likely to succeed and are a
good thing, especially when they go in a consistent long-term direction
I agree with Marc, man_made=drinking_fountain appears to be completely
useless and redundant.
I see no reason against deprecating it.
If other things to improve the fountains situation can be done that
would be great, but at least this is a start.
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.
I don't see why drinking fountains shouldn't be a value of fountain=* if
the key fountain exists it makes no sense to put fountains under man_made.
Drinking fountains are a particular typology of fountains.
What was wrong with calling a drinking fountain a drinking fountain?
Nothing wrong, a bubbler is a particular type of drinking fountain, one
in which the jet of water is upwards.
You can use fountain=drinking for all the others.
We are not talking about a big number of elements, thus changes should
not be too problematic, I have generally seen most drinking fountains
tagged as amenity=drinking_water which is a rather unspecific tag that
could easily be substituted by drinking_water=yes.
* drinking_water=yes
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:drinking_water>: 112,290
* amenity=drinking_water
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Ddrinking_water>:
266,403 elements
* man_made=drinking_fountain
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain>:
650 elements
* fountain=bubbler
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Dbubbler>: 314
elements
* fountain=drinking
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Ddrinking>: 265
elements
As you can see, amenity=drinking_water is currently the most common way
to tag this.
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