The thing with this tag is that it doesn't encapsulate the historic, architectonic and cultural meaning of the place. It's difficult to tag a village central fountain, with it's structure, colours, design etc. and just tag them with drinking_water. This creates a lot of ambiguity in Portugal, since these features are way more important than those found with lights and statues in roundabouts and alike, due to their historic importance. We even call them literally "fountains". Tagging them with just amenity=drinking_water doesn't make them justice. Like I said, maybe this could be solved with the key fountain=*, I don't know. Nevertheless, this raises another question: what's the criteria to consider that the water is drinkable? An official mention on the fountain or just knowing that people drink the water?
Às 18:57 de 02/02/2020, European Water Project escreveu:
Hi Antonio, amenity=drinking_water seems like the right way to go for a utilitarian drinking fountain. Best regards, Stuart
Às 18:57 de 02/02/2020, Joseph Eisenberg escreveu:
The first is designed like a Roman or Medieval drinking fountain, so amenity=drinking_water is appropriate. The second example does not have water running in the picture, but if it can be used (perhaps there is a handle which turns on the water?), the same tag would work. I would generally use amenity=fountain for decorative water features which are not designed for drinking. Joseph E
On Sun, Feb 2, 2020, 22:30 António Madeira <antoniomade...@gmx.com <mailto:antoniomade...@gmx.com>> wrote: Hi there. In Portugal and most Mediterranean countries, there are literally thousands of fountains that are not decorative like those examples at the bottom of the wiki page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dfountain I'm talking about fountains that exist in every small village or even at the side of the road, like these: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loriga_-_Fontan%C3%A1rio.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S%C3%A3o_Jo%C3%A3o_das_Lampas_Fontan%C3%A1rio.jpg What's the best way of tagging these fountains? They're not decorative, they're utilitarian architectonic structures made to deliver drinking water. amenity=fountain doesn't seem to fit here, neither amenity=drinking_water. I know that we can use fountain=* in both tags, but which one? Regards. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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