[Tagging] Deprecation proposal: man_made=drinking_fountain

[Davidoskky]

> in my experience, small steps are more likely to succeed and are a 
> good thing, especially when they go in a consistent long-term direction


I agree with Marc, man_made=drinking_fountain appears to be completely 
useless and redundant.

I see no reason against deprecating it.

If other things to improve the fountains situation can be done that 
would be great, but at least this is a start.


> Do feel it should eventually be deleted, but as part of sorting out 
> issues with using "fountain" and "drinking fountain" sharing part of 
> the same tag. 

I don't see why drinking fountains shouldn't be a value of fountain=* if 
the key fountain exists it makes no sense to put fountains under man_made.

Drinking fountains are a particular typology of fountains.


> What was wrong with calling a drinking fountain a drinking fountain?
Nothing wrong, a bubbler is a particular type of drinking fountain, one 
in which the jet of water is upwards.

You can use fountain=drinking for all the others.


We are not talking about a big number of elements, thus changes should 
not be too problematic, I have generally seen most drinking fountains 
tagged as amenity=drinking_water which is a rather unspecific tag that 
could easily be substituted by drinking_water=yes.

  * drinking_water=yes
    <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:drinking_water>: 112,290
  * amenity=drinking_water
    <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Ddrinking_water>:
    266,403 elements
  * man_made=drinking_fountain
    <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_fountain>:
    650 elements
  * fountain=bubbler
    <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Dbubbler>: 314
    elements
  * fountain=drinking
    <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:fountain%3Ddrinking>: 265
    elements

As you can see, amenity=drinking_water is currently the most common way 
to tag this.
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