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cite="mid:be9ca585-2bb0-4c19-3d9e-54220bd3df9b@mailo.com">in my
experience, small steps are more likely to succeed and are a good
thing, especially when they go in a consistent long-term direction
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<p>I agree with Marc, man_made=drinking_fountain appears to be
completely useless and redundant.</p>
<p>I see no reason against deprecating it.</p>
<p>If other things to improve the fountains situation can be done
that would be great, but at least this is a start.</p>
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<blockquote type="cite">Do feel it should eventually be deleted,
but as part of sorting out issues with using "fountain" and
"drinking fountain" sharing part of the same tag. </blockquote>
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<p>I don't see why drinking fountains shouldn't be a value of
fountain=* if the key fountain exists it makes no sense to put
fountains under man_made.</p>
<p>Drinking fountains are a particular typology of fountains.</p>
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<blockquote type="cite">What was wrong with calling a drinking
fountain a drinking fountain? <br>
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Nothing wrong, a bubbler is a particular type of drinking
fountain, one in which the jet of water is upwards.</p>
<p>You can use fountain=drinking for all the others.</p>
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<p>We are not talking about a big number of elements, thus changes
should not be too problematic, I have generally seen most drinking
fountains tagged as amenity=drinking_water which is a rather
unspecific tag that could easily be substituted by
drinking_water=yes.<br>
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<li><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:drinking_water">drinking_water=yes</a>:
112,290<br>
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<li><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Ddrinking_water">amenity=drinking_water</a>:
266,403 elements</li>
<li><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain">man_made=drinking_fountain</a>:
650 elements</li>
<li><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Dbubbler">fountain=bubbler</a>:
314 elements</li>
<li><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Ddrinking">fountain=drinking</a>:
265 elements</li>
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<p>As you can see, amenity=drinking_water is currently the most
common way to tag this.<br>
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