[Tagging] How to tag an utilitarian fountain?

[António Madeira]

Ok, let's stay in the same page then. :)
Regarding schools, I don't know what you mean, because here, schools
dont have fountains, just taps and those of the bubbler type (maybe old
century schools have fountains in their yards or something similar).

Às 18:20 de 06/02/2020, Paul Allen escreveu:
> Which is the case in Britain for ornamental/decorative fountains. 
> Regardless
> of whether or not they supply drinking water, they're fountains.  But
> utilitarian
> drinking fountains, of the kind found in schools, are not "fountains"
> in normal
> British English usage.

This was assumed from my side since the beginning. What spurred me to
start this thread was that the element "fountain" in Portuguese iD was
translated as "decoration fountain" and the wiki seemed to support that
distinction.
So, as it is now, there are no decoration fountains, only fountains that
need drinking_water=yes if they provide potable water, which seems a
more encompassing and more close to reality solution.

>
> What I was objecting to was the idea that in some countries
> amenity=fountain
> is assumed to supply drinking water by default.  It needs an explicit
> drinking_water=yes.
>
> --
> Paul
>

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