Apparently they are not decorative enough for some people and should
be tagged amenity=drinking_water. However, the same type of fountain
could have a sign saying the water is not potable
Thank you for the examples, this is what I was trying to address.
yes, if the water is drinkable, I would go with
amenity=drinking_water, if it isn’t, maybe watering_place with
drinking_water=no? Or if animals can’t drink it either,
amenity=fountain seems ok.
It feels strange to me that the same exact structure might belong to
three different primary tags according to whether the water provided is
potable or not or if animals can use it or not.
Moreover, that same thing might have a tap, thus in that case you may
wish to tag it in even more ways; you may decide to tag it as a tap or
as a watering place or as a fountain.
Either tagging will not provide complete information about the object,
but only partial according to which one you picked.
it’s not the same kind of feature if the water is drinkable in one case and
isn’t in the other.
If I have two objects that look exactly the same, one providing drinking
water and the other providing non potable water; I would expect them to
be tagged through the same primary tag, with a secondary one describing
whether the water is potable or not. As it is currently done for
amenity=fountain and man_made=water_tap.
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