[Tagging] Deprecation proposal: man_made=drinking_fountain

ael witwall3 at disroot.org
Wed Oct 5 11:44:00 UTC 2022


On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 10:46:39AM +0000, martianfreeloader wrote:
> There is a broad consensus that the language for OSM tags is British
> English. Using a non-BE word for a tag because it is used in Australia while
> a synonymous BE word exists, would be the same using a Xhosa, Portuguese or
> Korean word, just because it exists.

As a native British English speaker I had never heard of a "bubbler".
As others have said, I would have called that a drinking_fountian.
I really don't understand why some people object to that term, but then
I haven't followed this thread closely. But some pictures of alleged
"drinking fountains" elsewhere in the world, don't seem to conform to
the British terminology.

ael




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