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<blockquote type="cite"><font face="times new roman, new york,
times, serif">If it was fitted with a shower .. then it
becomes a shower. </font></blockquote>
<font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">If around the
pipe on which the tap is present is fitted a fountain .. then it
becomes a fountain.</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"> <font face="times new roman, new york,
times, serif">Nit picking: Oxygen is a gas .. under 'normal'
conditions. </font></blockquote>
<font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Better to use
the term fluid rather than liquid.</font></p>
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<blockquote type="cite"><font face="times new roman, new york,
times, serif">I would expect the following to have taps are
part of their construction - as a OSM default - shower, bottle
filler, drinking fountain. If there is no tap .. then tap=no
.. or better flow=continuous. Why is flow=continuous better ..
it says what it is. </font></blockquote>
Why would tap=yes be a good default?</p>
<p>I have run an overpass query to find all tagged types of drinking
fountains
("fountain"~"^(bubbler|drinking|nasone|drinking_fountain|toret|roman_wolf|wallace)$").</p>
<p>The total number of tagged items is 1572, 964 of which are in
Italy (732 of which in Rome!!). In Italy this kind of fountains
generally does not have a tap.</p>
<p>Thus, the majority of fountains currently tagged in osm do not
have a tap; at this point it would be more sensible to have tap=no
as a default.<br>
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