[Tagging] dog=yes for drinking water

[Nathan Case]

The dog=* key is a bit of a fudge. It expresses both the (legal) access 
restriction and the suitability/intended user of a feature. (I write 
legal in brackets as it is often, in fact, not a legal status but more a 
specific type of permissive access.)

Therefore, I don't see a problem with amenity=drinking_water + dog=yes 
as identifying a drinking water source intended primarily for providing 
water for human consumption with a dog accessible (presumably secondary) 
outlet. If you wanted to add extra descriptive tags, such as 
dog:bowl=yes, then that seems fine. But they should be additional to 
dog=yes.

(For dog-only water fountains, we'd use amenity=watering_place)

Nathan


On 06/07/2022 14:04, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> Am Mi., 6. Juli 2022 um 14:54 Uhr schrieb Brian M. Sperlongano 
> <zelonewolf at gmail.com>:
>
>
>     My presumption based on your description, is what the original
>     user(s) of this tagging combination are trying to express, is a
>     drinking fountain that has a special kind of spout low to the
>     ground that's intended for dogs.
>
>
>
> I have never seen this kind of fountain, but presumably they exist. 
> Much more common around here is a kind of bowl/sink or small trough at 
> the bottom, where the water is collected before going to the drain. 
> For example this type of fountain is typically used for dog parks 
> around here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Droman_wolf
>
>     They're not super common here, but I do see them from time to time
>     in public parks.  You didn't cite a number, and the combination
>     doesn't come up in taginfo, so it would be helpful I think to
>     understand what kind of numbers we're talking about if we're
>     potentially erasing someone's documented usage.
>
>
>
> based on your comment I have checked the numbers with overpass turbo, 
> and they were higher than I expected, 942 combinations with dog=* of 
> which 431 are dog=yes (the rest seemed mostly "no")
>
> While I still believe the tag is illchosen and prevents from 
> distinguishing legal access from possible use (depending on the dog of 
> course), I guess the ship has sailed...
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
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