<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 at 12:48, ael via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</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">On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 10:46:39AM +0000, martianfreeloader wrote:<br><br>
As a native British English speaker I had never heard of a "bubbler".<br>
As others have said, I would have called that a drinking_fountian.<br>
I really don't understand why some people object to that term, but then<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> I brought up the issue with bubbler not being a British term, but I'm not really bothered by the specific word "bubbler" which is reasonably descriptive. Concentrating on the word bubbler is a distraction from what I think is the main issue. </div><div><br></div><div>The issue is the misuse of key:fountain.</div><div><br></div><div><div>The tag amenity=fountain was created to map the entity/object known in English as fountains, and is documented in the OSM wiki with several pictures of fountains. eg</div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Fountain_at_Milan_citadel.JPG">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Fountain_at_Milan_citadel.JPG</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>In English a small structure that spurts out drinking water is commonly referred to as a "drinking fountain". . "Drinking Fountain" contains the word fountain but it is not a fountain. In the same way "car park" contains the word park but is not a "park". OSM has a reasonable tag of amenity=drinking_water to map drinking water sources.</div><div><br></div><div>At some point a contributor decided to create a key to primarily document types of amenity_water and "specific types of drinking water fountains". They made, in my opinion, a huge mistake by naming it key:fountain. The tag guidance is then added to the fountain wiki page. The result is the existence of tags such as fountain=bubbler, and fountain=bottle_refill. When it should be, as a suggestion, drinking_water:type=bubbler, or drinking_water:type=bottle_refill. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Jass<br></div></div></div>