Dear All, I agree with Antonio that the wiki is too ambiguous and needs a bit of clean up, including more image examples of drinking fountains which merit to be tagged as
amenity=fountain drinking_water=yes What is the best practice process for making controlled contributions to the wiki pages ? Best regards, Stuart On Mon, 3 Feb 2020 at 15:02, António Madeira <antoniomade...@gmx.com> wrote: > Exactly my point. > That's why I say the wiki is too ambiguous and restrictive. > > A practical example (more simple, but still historic and cultural one): > https://www.diariocoimbra.pt/files/news/5d8411800e7e4.png > > If I map this with amenity=drinking_water any Portuguese who uses OSM for > searching waypoints is going to search for "fountain", not > "drinking_water". But if I'm a newbie, I go to the amenity=fountain's wiki > and I read "The water of those fountains is often not suitable for > drinking" and I only see examples of decorative fountains there. > That's the main issue I'm struggling with. > > But I agree with the amenity=fountain + drinking_water=yes for these > cases, adding the historic and heritage tags wherever possible. > > > Às 07:25 de 03/02/2020, Martin Koppenhoefer escreveu: > > Am Mo., 3. Feb. 2020 um 09:59 Uhr schrieb Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: > >> The request is for a fountain of utilitarian purpose, not historic, >> artistic or cultural. >> > > > How could we deny there is cultural or historic background for this > fountain? > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loriga_-_Fontan%C3%A1rio.JPG > > A purely utilitarian purpose water source in the city would look like > this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Water_tap_brass.JPG > > Cheers > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing > listTagging@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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