[Tagging] Deprecation proposal: man_made=drinking_fountain

[Warin]

On 7/10/22 23:43, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> Am Fr., 7. Okt. 2022 um 13:46 Uhr schrieb ael <witwall3 at disroot.org>:
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>     Maybe. I guess that if I was starting from scratch, I might have a
>     general tag of water_feature and find choose suitable values to
>     describe
>     these things.
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> then I am happy we do not start from scratch :)
> There are so many different kind of water features, that would be 
> useless without additional tags, just like amenity=social_facility, 
> there are already so many diffferent types of fountains, imagine if 
> this was taken away and we'd have to start to disambiguate "water 
> feature". And some fountains aren't about water at all (champagne, 
> chocolate, ...) although these are really few in comparison, and 
> typically not in the public space.


A decorative fountain does not have to 'spurt water up into the air'..

Example Tom Bass Wall Fountain, Sydney, Australia 1963. Nicknamed "The 
Urinal" for obvious reasons!

photo https://tbsss.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/39-PO.jpg

youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDmNkZm2KMw


The photos are decorative fountains .. to me. It may be possible to 
obtain drinking water from them, but to me visually they are for the 
most part decorative.
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