[Tagging] Is this a drinking fountain?

[stevea]

On Oct 9, 2022, at 3:01 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> what about this?
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AFountain_Largo_Samuele_Alatri,_Roma,_Italia_Sep_01,_2020_12-52-56_PM.jpeg

For this one, it doesn't even have a tap (apparently, water simply continuously flows), so I hesitate to use Joseph's excellent (US English-flavored?) "spigot" or "faucet."  Both of those words imply (to me) that there is a "tap," or a valve to control flow, and there doesn't appear to be one here.

If this water is potable, it's amenity=drinking_water.  Is it a fountain?  Long sigh...I suppose so, but "fountain" wouldn't be the first word I think of for this.  I wouldn't call it a "drinking fountain," though (downward flow), though you can fill a water bottle and you could wash your hands.  A more "generic" tag of amenity=drinking_water works very well here:  not adorned with "tap," not really anything besides "drinking water" in the most simple, unadorned way possible.  I've seen natural=spring water which is "rigged up" like this (with a simple downward pipe and continuous flow), but because I don't know what's under the ground making the water flow continuously like it does here, I wouldn't tag natural=spring here (though it may be true, and if somebody found out that's the source of the water, it would be a correct tag).

The "journey" continues!