[Tagging] Small fountain

[Jass Kurn]

As a British English speaker, that is not a fountain. A fountain is a
"stream of water forced upwards through a small hole, for decorative effect"
There is another commonly seen item that includes the word fountain, which
is "drinking fountain" but it is a fundamentally different object and a
type of drinking water object.

The object in the picture looks like a water trough, with a continuous feed
of water. Which in OSM is tagged amenity=watering_place for animals,
or amenity=drinking_water for human consumption.

Looking at the wiki it appears the definition of fountain has become a
mess. The wiki by default implies the (British) English definition of a
decorative vertical stream of water, but other uses of the word "fountain"
have been added.

Jass



On Tue, 5 Jul 2022 at 04:48, Yves via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
wrote:

> The wiki for amenity=fountain describes it as
> "A fountain with cultural, decorational or historical significance or
> which serves a recreational purpose."
>
> I'm surprised about the notability involved in the description.
>
> What about this kind of fountain :
>
> https://forum.openstreetmap.fr/uploads/default/original/2X/2/2edc0c03a211c72c455b6158f29e80c894143372.jpeg
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