On 4/10/22 23:48, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
I am not entirely how to solve various issues surrounding drinking
water terminology
(help highly welcomed!) but it is now really clear to me that
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain
Wiki page established November 2017. 656 uses.
is not helpful at all and it should be marked as deprecated
- many drinking fountains are eligible for man_made=water_tap
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dwater_tap
Wiki page established November 2017. 23,678 uses.
Taps are not 'drinking fountains' -see below.
- it duplicates https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Dbubbler
Wiki page established September 2019 . 319 uses.
- as stated this tag is equivalent to
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Dbubbler
but there are also water fountain which are not emitting
upward jet of water in the air
So we have tag which for many (all?) features collides with better
established tag AND it is duplicated AND it is poorly named AND it is
rarely used
AND it introduces confusion.
?? "rarely used" but has twice the uses of the proposed replacement that
came latter?
A 'tap' is not a 'drinking fountain'.
The 'drinking fountain' is designed to be used by humans for directly
and conveniently drinking from. Always a upward arc of water at a low
flow rate.
Taps on the other hand are more convenient for filling a glass or
bottle, some times for connecting a hose - usually with a downward outlet.
Look at the symbols for each...
drinking fountain
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Drinking_Fountain_-_The_Noun_Project.svg/278px-Drinking_Fountain_-_The_Noun_Project.svg.png
tap
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Ua_6.12_service-potable_water.svg/238px-Ua_6.12_service-potable_water.svg.png
They are different .. physically and functionally.
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