[Tagging] dog=yes for drinking water

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 21 Jul 2022, at 12:02, Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at gmx.at> wrote:
> I think dog=yes is perfectly fine because its meaning is quite obvious


as in “dogs may drink”, “is designed specifically for dogs to drink”, “it is not forbidden to dogs to drink”?


> (if you are aware of the existence of such amenities) and there is
> no overlap with the legal meaning on other objects such as ways. Please
> show me a single amenity=drinking_water where dogs are legally
> forbidden to be given water from... ;)


be given water from (as in bring your own bowl) is very different from a feature that is designed to let dogs drink.


> Vienna is kind of famous for the amount of public drinking water spouts
> (rivaled only by Zurich) and we have many that have the discussed
> extension especially for dogs but dog=yes is only used a few times yet.
> I think instead of trying to change the tagging it would be better to
> improve the documentation. Here are some pictures of Viennese drinking
> fountains that I would tag with dog=yes that can be used in the wiki:


great, also tag the pictures in OpenStreetMap if you know where they are…

If there are recurring models you can invent a name for them and add them to the key:fountain page.


Cheers Martin