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<div dir="auto">I am not entirely how to solve various issues surrounding drinking water terminology<br></div><div dir="auto">(help highly welcomed!) but it is now really clear to me that<br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain</a><br></div><div dir="auto">is not helpful at all and it should be marked as deprecated<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- many drinking fountains are eligible for man_made=water_tap<br></div><div dir="auto">- it duplicates <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Dbubbler">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Dbubbler</a><br></div><div dir="auto">- as stated this tag is equivalent to <br></div><div dir="auto"> <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Dbubbler" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Dbubbler</a><br></div><div dir="auto"> but there are also water fountain which are not emitting<br></div><div dir="auto"> upward jet of water in the air<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So we have tag which for many (all?) features collides with better<br></div><div dir="auto">established tag AND it is duplicated AND it is poorly named AND it is rarely used<br></div><div dir="auto">AND it introduces confusion.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Can we mark it as deprecated and recommend not using it?<br></div><div dir="auto">With replacement of man_made=water_tap where applicable - which is <br></div><div dir="auto">likely for all cases or almost all cases.<br></div> </body>
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