[Tagging] Water source types

[Mateusz Konieczny]

On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 10:44:10 +1100
Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> As a person who added some of these amenity=drinking_water in the
> past I feel that changing the ones I have added a better tag of, say,
> man_made=drinking_fountain is justified ... that is what is
> specifically there.
> 
> Further .. if I find a drinking fountain at a place that has been
> tagged with amenity=drinking_water, possibly a long time before the
> existence of man_made=drinking_fountain .. should it not be changed
> to a more specific tag???

There is nothing wrong in adding more specific tag.

The problem appears
when commonly used, well supported tag is deleted to add extremely rare
tag that may or may not be used more widely in future.

Fortunately it is possible to keep amenity=drinking_water and add
man_made=* to add detail.