[Tagging] How to tag an utilitarian fountain?

[European Water Project]

Dear All,

I agree with Antonio that the wiki is too ambiguous and needs a bit of
clean up, including more image examples of drinking fountains which merit
to be tagged as

amenity=fountain
drinking_water=yes

What is the best practice process for making controlled contributions to
the wiki pages ?

Best regards,

Stuart


On Mon, 3 Feb 2020 at 15:02, António Madeira <antoniomadeira at gmx.com> wrote:

> Exactly my point.
> That's why I say the wiki is too ambiguous and restrictive.
>
> A practical example (more simple, but still historic and cultural one):
> https://www.diariocoimbra.pt/files/news/5d8411800e7e4.png
>
> If I map this with amenity=drinking_water any Portuguese who uses OSM for
> searching waypoints is going to search for "fountain", not
> "drinking_water". But if I'm a newbie, I go to the amenity=fountain's wiki
> and I read "The water of those fountains is often not suitable for
> drinking" and I only see examples of decorative fountains there.
> That's the main issue I'm struggling with.
>
> But I agree with the amenity=fountain + drinking_water=yes for these
> cases, adding the historic and heritage tags wherever possible.
>
>
> Às 07:25 de 03/02/2020, Martin Koppenhoefer escreveu:
>
> Am Mo., 3. Feb. 2020 um 09:59 Uhr schrieb Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com>:
>
>> The request is for a fountain of utilitarian purpose, not historic,
>> artistic or cultural.
>>
>
>
> How could we deny there is cultural or historic background for this
> fountain?
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loriga_-_Fontan%C3%A1rio.JPG
>
> A purely utilitarian purpose water source in the city would look like
> this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Water_tap_brass.JPG
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>
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