<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear Paul,</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The example you use is a very good one, but not necessarily for the reason you intended. </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The fountain in the picture you show is an old style fountain with a drinking cup who style was banned by Federal Regulation in the US in 1912 due to its unsanitary nature. </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I would therefore tag this fountain as </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">amenity=fountain + drinking_water=no<br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best Regards,</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Stuart </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">This old drinking fountain is harder to classify:</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fountain_Snow_Hill_Samuel_Gurney..jpg" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fountain_Snow_Hill_Samuel_Gurney..jpg</a><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Technically just a drinking fountain but it is rather decorative. Is it</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">amenity=water or amenity=fountain + drinking_water=yes?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 23:56, Paul Allen <<a href="mailto:pla16021@gmail.com">pla16021@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 22:39, António Madeira <<a href="mailto:antoniomadeira@gmx.com" target="_blank">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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Ok, let's stay in the same page then. :)<br>
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></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Bubbler appears to be a name I'm unfamiliar with for a drinking fountain. One</div><div>of these <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bubbler.jpg" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bubbler.jpg</a> It's not ornamental or</div><div> decorative. It's a drinking fountain, not a fountain.</div><div><br></div><div>This old drinking fountain is harder to classify:</div><div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fountain_Snow_Hill_Samuel_Gurney..jpg" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fountain_Snow_Hill_Samuel_Gurney..jpg</a><br></div><div>Technically just a drinking fountain but it is rather decorative. Is it</div><div>amenity=water or amenity=fountain + drinking_water=yes?<br></div><div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
This was assumed from my side since the beginning. What spurred me
to start this thread was that the element "fountain" in Portuguese
iD was translated as "decoration fountain" and the wiki seemed to
support that distinction. <br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>But that's pretty much how British English sees it: fountains are primarily</div><div>ornamental/decorative. They may incidentally provide drinking water or they</div><div>may not. Remember that what you call a bubbler is what we call a drinking</div><div>fountain.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-- <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Paul</div><div class="gmail_quote"><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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