[Tagging] How to tag an utilitarian fountain?

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Mon Feb 3 06:49:34 UTC 2020


 amenity = fountain
drinking_water=yes

Is the best way to tag this.

Please add photos in Wikimedia commons and link back :)

On Mon, Feb 3, 2020, 00:35 Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/2/20 8:29 am, António Madeira wrote:
> > Hi there.
> >
> > In Portugal and most Mediterranean countries, there are literally
> > thousands of fountains that are not decorative like those examples at
> > the bottom of the wiki page:
> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dfountain
> >
> > I'm talking about fountains that exist in every small village or even at
> > the side of the road, like these:
> > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loriga_-_Fontan%C3%A1rio.JPG
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S%C3%A3o_Jo%C3%A3o_das_Lampas_Fontan%C3%A1rio.jpg
> >
> >
> > What's the best way of tagging these fountains? They're not decorative,
> > they're utilitarian architectonic structures made to deliver drinking
> > water.
> > amenity=fountain doesn't seem to fit here, neither
> > amenity=drinking_water.
>
>
> amenity=drinking_water is used for;
>
> streams that people drink from
>
> wells  that people drink from
>
> taps that people drink from
>
> blubbers that people drink from
>
> fountains that people drink from
>
>
> As such it is very non descriptive! More of a property key like
> drinking_water=yes.
>
>
> Some alternatives?
>
> man_made=drinking _fountain. Not popular for some, warning I made it.
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain
>
>
> See also
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dwater_tap
>
>
>
> > I know that we can use fountain=* in both tags, but which one?
> >
> > Regards.
> >
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