[Tagging] Deprecation proposal: man_made=drinking_fountain

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 6 Oct 2022, at 14:00, Davidoskky via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> 
> I feel that man_made=water_tap is quite useless in this regard and might very well be substituted for a tap=yes secondary value.


these are 2 completely different things, one is a feature and one is a property.

both can be used, but typical applications will be different.



> 
> amenity=watering_place describes both natural and artificial places/objects according to its use and not to what it actually is.
> 


it actually is a watering_place :)


> 
> With all these tags, there is still no way to properly describe a place with a pipe that provides water which is not drinkable and not decorative.



natural=spring?
whoelse would have a pipe with nonpotable water and without a tap?
there is also something for tailing ponds.

Can you give an example what you want to tag and cannot?

Cheers Martin