[Tagging] RFC - A broad look at fountains

[Warin]

On 13/11/22 03:00, Davidoskky via Tagging wrote:
> Is this proposal functionally any different from the water outlet 
> proposal? 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_outlet


There is a lot more to be done for something like this. It needs to 
incorporate all "man made sources of water'  eg wells.


I am coming around to liking the value 'water_supply_outlet'. I have 
thought of 'water_source' but that could be misconstrued as the start of 
a river.


Decorative fountains do not fall under 'water_supply_outlet'. Another 
problem with 'water_supply_outlet' is the chosen symbol of a tap, I'd 
leave the symbol to later -see how it evolves.

>
> I'm alright with using a name different from fountain since a lot of 
> people disagree on that name.
>
> By doing all this you're effectively deprecating amenity=fountain; 
> that's strange to me.


It would remove decorative fountains from amenity=fountain as this looks 
to be evolving into a mess of things that I would not call 'fountains'. 
It would leave amenity=fountain existing.

>
> I would not tag decorative fountains as tourism as those are not 
> necessarily there for tourism; you have fountains in hidden places 
> that have never seen a tourist...


? If hidden how do we know they are there ..  :) There are a few 
'hidden' tourist spots, sometimes I map them, sometimes I leave them off 
the map in particular where the venue is small and I don't want to see a 
crowd of people.

>
> Moreover, this would require retagging a lot of objects, and it cannot 
> even be done mechanically because you'd end up mistagging the 
> fountains which are not decorative.


Agreed it is a lot of work. But there is no other way of isolating 
decorative fountains from the other 'fountains' no mater what tag is 
agreed too.