[Tagging] Is this a drinking fountain?

[Joseph Eisenberg]

As an American, I would not consider "fontanella bolsena" (
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Fontanella_Bolsena.jpg) to be a
drinking fountain, it appears to be a public drinking water "tap" (though
in American English we would usually call it a faucet or spigot).

On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 2:14 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

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> Oct 4, 2022, 15:14 by dieterdreist at gmail.com:
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> sent from a phone
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> On 4 Oct 2022, at 14:46, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
> tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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> Also, ones in Rome that I have seen mostly had downward flow.
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> the typical, mostly deployed types in Rome (nasone and roman_wolf) are
> both providing a method to change to upward flow (there’s a hole on top of
> the tube and when you tap the outlet the water jets out there)
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> Oh, I was unaware of this. That would make my life easier during my visit
> there.
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> So nasone/roman_wolf style water provider with downward flow only - would
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> be a drinking fountain?
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> Or lets take
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Fontanella_Bolsena.jpg
> illustrating fountain=drinking and seemingly without upward flow:
> is it a drinking fountain?
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> If no - should we rename fountain=drinking? Or remove it as an example
> at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:fountain ?
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> If yes - why
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Water_flowing_from_drinking_water_tap.jpg
> would not be a water fountain?
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