[Tagging] Small fountain

[Yves]

Not necessarily, if we have this other tag watering_place for smaller, common 'fountains' so be it.
Yves


Le 5 juillet 2022 18:05:56 GMT+02:00, "António Madeira" <antoniomadeira at gmx.com> a écrit :
>That's probably because the definition should include a broader sense of
>the meaning of fountain, not only the British one.
>As discussed before in this mailing list, this is just too important in
>many countries to be just a "stream of water forced upwards through a
>small hole, for decorative effect".
>If that's the correct definition in Britain, so be it, but please leave
>it open to define the original and most used sense of the word in other
>countries.
>
>Regards,
>António Madeira.
>
>Às 12:15 de 05/07/2022, Jass Kurn escreveu:
>> 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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