<div dir="ltr">On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 20:54, António Madeira <<a href="mailto:antoniomadeira@gmx.com">antoniomadeira@gmx.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I did read the description closely, and what I said still applies:
in Portugal it is a fountain in the way it is described in Britain,
an amenity=fountain with no drinking water.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think we may be talking past each other again.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
That's what I'm trying to explain from the beginning: it doesn't
matter if it has drinking water or not, it will always be a
fountain.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Which is the case in Britain for ornamental/decorative fountains. Regardless</div><div>of whether or not they supply drinking water, they're fountains. But utilitarian</div><div>drinking fountains, of the kind found in schools, are not "fountains" in normal</div><div>British English usage.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div> But in the cases (the majority of them) that they have, we
should be allowed to apply the drinking_water=yes, regardless if in
Britain that's not the case. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is the case in Britain that if an ornamental fountain supplies drinking water</div><div>then the tag drinking_water=yes should be applied. I don't think anyone said</div><div>otherwise, or that you shouldn't apply drinking_water=yes to fountains in</div><div>Portugal. The only thing that may be different is that Britain may not have</div><div>as many ornamental fountains that supply drinking water as Portugal does.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
This way, everyone is happy: you still call it fountain in Britain,
and I still call it fountain in Spain, Italy, France, Portugal or
wherever, with the difference that the chance of them having potable
water is higher.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It doesn't matter which country the fountain is in. If it supplies potable water then</div><div>add drinking_water=yes and if it doesn't supply potable water then don't</div><div>add drinking_water=yes (perhaps even add drinking_water=no if most</div><div>ornamental fountains in the area supply drinking water.</div><div><br></div><div>What I was objecting to was the idea that in some countries amenity=fountain</div><div>is assumed to supply drinking water by default. It needs an explicit</div><div>drinking_water=yes.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>