[Tagging] RFC - A broad look at fountains
Peter Elderson
pelderson at gmail.com
Sat Oct 8 17:41:15 UTC 2022
I have the impression that slow running water points in Europe rapidly are fitted with a push button fot a limited amount of water or a limited tap time. Would that turn them into water taps?
Peter Elderson
> Op 8 okt. 2022 om 19:26 heeft michael spreng (datendelphin) <ml at osm.datendelphin.net> het volgende geschreven:
>
> Hi
>
> Yes, those examples from Eginhard are all fountains. I discussed this at various times with other Swiss mappers. Reasons that some are not tagged as fountain, from those conversations:
>
> - The term "decorational" confuses
> - The examples on the wiki page are mostly exuberant examples. We should
> add one of these images to the examples gallery
> - The icon in the editor and on the map also shows a rather fancy
> fountain
> - It seems we have more specific terms in German for fountains.
> Springbrunnen, Laufbrunnen, Brunnen... it confuses that in English,
> everything is mapped to the same term (I'm not a native speaker,
> please correct me if there are more).
>
> From my biased German speaking view, it would be nice to have a category for "Laufbrunnen", meaning water is discharged at low pressure, usually horizontally. No on/off switch. You can fill your water bottle easily.
>
> have a nice day
> Michael
>
>
>> On 08.10.22 12:38, Enno Hermann wrote:
>> Taps seem clearly defined to me and I don't think a combination of amenity=fountain, tap=yes would make sense for the examples on the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dwater_tap <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dwater_tap>
>> One thing I keep wondering about on this topic is how to tag very simple fountains that are widespread in Switzerland along hiking paths (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adlisberg_-_Gockhausen_IMG_4215.jpg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adlisberg_-_Gockhausen_IMG_4215.jpg>) or in villages (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brunnen1886BassersdorfI.jpg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brunnen1886BassersdorfI.jpg>). 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 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brunnen_Waldweg.jpeg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brunnen_Waldweg.jpeg>, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014-05-20-Yverdon_(Foto_Dietrich_Michael_Weidmann)_032.JPG <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014-05-20-Yverdon_(Foto_Dietrich_Michael_Weidmann)_032.JPG>); probably these are often only added later for legal reasons when the water is not tested. It does not make sense to me to use different tags for the same kind of feature, so I generally use amenity=fountain for these with appropriate subtags.
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