[Tagging] Deprecation proposal: man_made=drinking_fountain

ael witwall3 at disroot.org
Thu Oct 6 18:27:22 UTC 2022


On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 05:56:03PM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> sent from a phone
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> > On 6 Oct 2022, at 11:41, ael via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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> > Definitely not a fountain.
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> > These all in British English.
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> these all fountains in German and Italian, basically any sculpture with water around it or emerging from it is a fountain, particularly if the water is in movement.
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> In German, even wells are “fountains” (same word).
 
Just feeding in what I think is standard UK usage which I thought was the
default for tags. But I don't have very strong views on this.

ael




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