<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 7:41 AM António Madeira via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Regarding schools, I don't know what you mean, because here, schools
dont have fountains, just taps and those of the bubbler type (maybe
old century schools have fountains in their yards or something
similar).<br><div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px">Re “those of the bubbler type” - we call these “drinking fountains”, and most amenity=drinking_water in the USA or Britain will be of these type. We would not tag these as amenity=fountain, because a “fountain”</span> is a decorative water feature where water shoots up into the air.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">While the word “fountain” is related to “fuente” and similar words derived from Latin, it does NOT mean “water source” or “spring” because we have a different word for springs and wells.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In English a fountain has a decorative key of water, so they are not designed to provide water for drinking or household use.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In fact, before this discussion, I was not aware that there were still Roman-style drinking fountains in operation in Southern Europe. They are not present in Southeast Asia, Latin America or North America.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Since Portugal and other Mediterranean countries are using amenity=fountain for such features, it is fine to document this secondary meaning, even though it is not expected by English speakers from Britain or North America.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Joseph Eisenberg </div></div></div>