[Tagging] RFC - A broad look at fountains

[Warin]

On 10/10/22 21:36, Davidoskky via Tagging wrote:
>> In Australia it would be unusual to find a drinking fountain without 
>> a tap to stop the flow when a person is not drinking. I think it 
>> could be illegal such is the scarcity of water. 
> Thus, I believe that a world wide default should be avoided in favour 
> of local ones or enforcing explicit tagging.
>
> tap=yes as default would not work in Italy and tap=no as default would 
> not work in Australia.
>
>
> _


Technically it is a 'valve' that controls the water flow. The same kind 
of 'valve' is found in a water tap and in a shower.


I know that the tag of 'fountain' does not sit well with taps, at least 
not with me.

A new main tag of 'water_source=*' would remove the 'fountain' 
requirement and could use values such as water_well, shower, tap etc.


Decorative fountains could be moved to the tourism key as 
tourism=decorative_fountain.

This could conflict with tourism=art_work as some decorative fountains 
contain statures and other art works..

Possibly the sub key of artwork_type=* could be used under the tag 
tourism=decorative_fountain.

Ideally the two would be separate OSM entities as they are usually 
separate real world feature, one inside the other.