On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 01:07:56PM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > so basically you call a "fountain" what we call in German a "Fontaine", or > "Springbrunnen", and what could be more specifically called a "waterspout > fountain" in English, i.e. a structure where water is blasted into the air, > and have no word for all the sculptural fountains that don't jet water in > the air?
I keep saying that I am no expert, but I am not aware of any common terms for such "water features". Yes, I think that a fountain in everyday English implies vertical or at least a component of vertical motion in water: come to think of it, it could be any liquid being projected into the air. > My superficial dictionary research seems to confirm this. Well, then maybe > we should ignore British English usage and go for more general usage, > because this is what I found in Germany, Italy and France? > So how do tag all these "fountains" that aren't waterspouts in Britain, > there must be an alternative tag for it, not? Maybe. I guess that if I was starting from scratch, I might have a general tag of water_feature and find choose suitable values to describe these things. ael _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
