[Tagging] Is this a drinking fountain?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Oct 4, 2022, 11:21 by dieterdreist at gmail.com:

> Am Di., 4. Okt. 2022 um 11:08 Uhr schrieb Davidoskky via Tagging <> tagging at openstreetmap.org> >:
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>> > I wouldn't call this a "drinking fountain," since I understand that term to mean the water flows upwards
>>  >   COULD drink from it, if I were to cup my hands and bring them to my lips, even as that is inefficient, if I were really thirsty, I could do it.
>>  In my country, and most countries I visited, fountains providing 
>>  drinking water with the specific purpose of letting people drink have a 
>>  downward flow.
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> I can confirm this from my experience, I have been mapping thousands of drinking fountains in the past 14 years, and only 3 or 4 of those found outside had an upward flow. This refers to Italy (lots of drinking fountains) and Germany (drinking fountains are quite rare), and also (limited experience) to France.
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> You don't have to drink from your hands, you can bow and drink with your mouth if you don't have a glass or bottle.
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Also, ones in Rome that I have seen mostly had downward flow.

In Poland both variants are popular.

See for example image shown at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Ddrinking
(added there by Dieterdreist)
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