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<div>For now I<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1) notified people who used added this tag more than once <br></div><div dir="auto">(currently mapped man_made=drinking_fountain are counted)<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">See notification list at <br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain#Deprecation">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain#Deprecation</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2) added section "Problems" at<br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain#Problems">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain#Problems</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If noone will protest I will also mark it as deprecated and add request to<br></div><div dir="auto">consider using other less problematic tags.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If someone will protest I will likely make a deprecation proposal<br></div><div dir="auto">(or leave it in limbo state if I will have no time for that).<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Oct 4, 2022, 14:48 by tagging@openstreetmap.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><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 target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain">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" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">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 target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Dbubbler">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></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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