[Tagging] How to tag an utilitarian fountain?

[António Madeira]

Thank you for your input and collaboration in clarifying this important
issue regarding fountains.
I agree with your changes and I'll adapt it also in the Portuguese wiki.

I also thank to everyone who participated and helped discuss this.

Regards,
António.

Às 12:21 de 04/02/2020, European Water Project escreveu:
>
> Dear All,
>
>
> I have made the following changes to the wiki page - which I think
> makes it clearer that amenity=fountain && drinking_water=yes is an
> acceptable tag pair for fountains of historic or cultural significance
> which serve potable water.
>
> Feel free to amend or reverse them if you feel they are inconsistent.
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dfountain
>
> Best regards,
>
> Stuart
>
> ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>
> OLD SENTENCE
>
> The water of those fountains is often not suitable for drinking.
>
> OLD SENTENCE
>
> The water of fountains tagged as amenity=fountain is often not
> drinkable – especially the large ornamental ones.
>
> OLD SENTENCE
>
> If providing drinking water is not the primary use of a fountain but
> the water is drinkable nonetheless use drinking_water
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:drinking_water>=yes (see the
> tag page for more detailed tagging).
>
> OLD SENTENCE
>
> Please tag a drinking fountain which does not meet the tag criteria,
> such as a modern metal fountain in a train station as
> amenity=drinking_water. <br><br>If the fountain provides drinking
> water and meets the requisites for being tagged as a fountain, add an
> additional tag drinking_water
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:drinking_water>=yes (see the
> tag page for more detailed tagging).
>
> Also :
>
> I have added pictures of three fountains meeting the above criteria
> which dispense drinking water. 1)  Paris,France 2) Trento, Italy, 3)
> Lorigo, Portugal
>
>
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 14:15, European Water Project
> <europeanwaterproject at gmail.com
> <mailto:europeanwaterproject at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thank you Martin,
>
>     I will make some limited changes, which I believe are consistent
>     with the recent discussions, to make it clearer that a fountain -
>     which deserves that name - can also have a utilitarian function of
>     delivering drinking water.  I will also add a couple more photos
>     of historic fountains which serve potable water.
>
>     After making these changes, I will send out a summary note to this
>     list just to be on the safe side.
>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dfountain
>
>     Best regards,
>
>     Stuart
>
>     On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 14:02, Martin Koppenhoefer
>     <dieterdreist at gmail.com <mailto:dieterdreist at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Am Di., 4. Feb. 2020 um 09:15 Uhr schrieb European Water
>         Project <europeanwaterproject at gmail.com
>         <mailto:europeanwaterproject at gmail.com>>:
>
>             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 ?
>
>
>
>         there are no controlled contributions to the wiki ;-)
>         If you feel the page needs clarification or other improvement,
>         you can either discuss them beforehand, for example here (or
>         maybe on the talk-page in the wiki, but that may be a longer
>         process), or you just perform them an see what happens :)
>         It really depends how much your edit is consistent with the
>         views of the other "contributors" (particularily those who
>         guard the wiki), how much you are going to change, in which
>         domain (userpages, tag pages, organisational pages, summary
>         pages, pages for beginners, etc.) of the wiki you are editing,
>         etc.
>         There is no clear answer to your question.
>
>         From my point of view, any fountain where you are starting to
>         think that it might get the amenity=fountain tag probably
>         should get this tag.
>
>         Cheers
>         Martin
>
>
>
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