On Oct 9, 2022, at 4:15 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 10 Oct 2022, at 00:15, stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: >> >> If this water is potable, it's amenity=drinking_water. > > yes, it is potable, and if you look closely you’ll notice that the tube has > an upper hole, so when you tap the flow it will create a vertical spout in > the curve, so somehow it does have an upward flow.
That's clever, I haven't seen that; seems like it would work well. I'll have to try it (plugging the downward flow, forcing upward flow, so that I can drink with my lips) next time I encounter one of these (or even this one). > There is no tap, continuous flow, which is best from a hygienic and > temperature aspect but wasting some water of course. Yes, some "fountains" (for drinking water) are like this. I suppose somebody figured "well, the drainage is good" (or even improved, as here with a grate to a wastewater system, apparently) and "well, it doesn't make (hydrological) sense for us to 'plug' this with a 'tap' (spigot, faucet, valve...), so we'll simply allow it to remain free-flowing." OK. > I have looked at the drinking fountain article in en.wikipedia and from 14 > examples, only 4 have an upward flow, so I would not expect this to be a > universal requirement, although I can imagine in some areas all drinking > fountains might work like this. In Rome they are very rare, have seen only > those in the sapienza university, while the hundreds of others in the city > almost always provide the hole so you can redirect the flow (but it is not > generally the case in other places nearby) I am learning to be more flexible in "drinking fountains must have upward flow." In my experience, what I call "drinking fountains" (what some call a "bubbler") DO have upward flow, either nearly always or always. It seems this is because of a lack of cultural exposer to wider concepts of "fountain" around the world, so I'm happy to have my understanding of the word "fountain" be expanded to include this. I am not so naïve as to think that because I haven't seen a wider definition of something that my narrow definition is correct; no. >> Is it a fountain? Long sigh...I suppose so, but "fountain" wouldn't be the >> first word I think of for this. I wouldn't call it a "drinking fountain," >> though (downward flow), though you can fill a water bottle and you could >> wash your hands. > > I’ve mapped it with fountain=block, for me it is a modern fountain, with a > reference to the historic type (type of tube) but mimicking the normal stone > blocks around. By shape it is less fountain than the Bolsena example, and the > absence of a water tap doesn’t offer this kind of “side tracking”, so I > thought it could be interesting mentioning it. That works for me. And, it is interesting. These entire threads are. Thanks for the good (and sometimes tedious, but worth it) dialog. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
