[Tagging] RFC - A broad look at fountains

[Davidoskky]

> Apparently they are not decorative enough for some people and should 
> be tagged amenity=drinking_water. However, the same type of fountain 
> could have a sign saying the water is not potable

Thank you for the examples, this is what I was trying to address.


> yes, if the water is drinkable, I would go with 
> amenity=drinking_water, if it isn’t, maybe watering_place with 
> drinking_water=no? Or if animals can’t drink it either, 
> amenity=fountain seems ok.
It feels strange to me that the same exact structure might belong to 
three different primary tags according to whether the water provided is 
potable or not or if animals can use it or not.

Moreover, that same thing might have a tap, thus in that case you may 
wish to tag it in even more ways; you may decide to tag it as a tap or 
as a watering place or as a fountain.

Either tagging will not provide complete information about the object, 
but only partial according to which one you picked.


> it’s not the same kind of feature if the water is drinkable in one case and isn’t in the other.
If I have two objects that look exactly the same, one providing drinking 
water and the other providing non potable water; I would expect them to 
be tagged through the same primary tag, with a secondary one describing 
whether the water is potable or not. As it is currently done for 
amenity=fountain and man_made=water_tap.