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    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.<br>
    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.<br>
    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?<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Às 18:57 de 02/02/2020, European Water
      Project escreveu:<br>
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        <div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Hi
            Antonio,</span></div>
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            style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> amenity=drinking_water
            seems like the right way to go for a utilitarian drinking
            fountain.</span></div>
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              style="font-size:12.8px">Best regards,</span></font></div>
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              style="font-size:12.8px">Stuart<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Às 18:57 de 02/02/2020, Joseph
      Eisenberg escreveu:<br>
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      <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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</pre>
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            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 2, 2020, 22:30
              António Madeira <<a
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              .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi
              there.<br>
              <br>
              In Portugal and most Mediterranean countries, there are
              literally<br>
              thousands of fountains that are not decorative like those
              examples at<br>
              the bottom of the wiki page:<br>
              <a
                href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dfountain"
                rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
                moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dfountain</a><br>
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              I'm talking about fountains that exist in every small
              village or even at<br>
              the side of the road, like these:<br>
              <a
href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loriga_-_Fontan%C3%A1rio.JPG"
                rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
                moz-do-not-send="true">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loriga_-_Fontan%C3%A1rio.JPG</a><br>
              <a
href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S%C3%A3o_Jo%C3%A3o_das_Lampas_Fontan%C3%A1rio.jpg"
                rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
                moz-do-not-send="true">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S%C3%A3o_Jo%C3%A3o_das_Lampas_Fontan%C3%A1rio.jpg</a><br>
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              What's the best way of tagging these fountains? They're
              not decorative,<br>
              they're utilitarian architectonic structures made to
              deliver drinking water.<br>
              amenity=fountain doesn't seem to fit here, neither
              amenity=drinking_water.<br>
              I know that we can use fountain=* in both tags, but which
              one?<br>
              <br>
              Regards.<br>
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