[Tagging] RFC - A broad look at fountains

[Warin]

On 10/10/22 20:55, Davidoskky via Tagging wrote:
>
>> If it was fitted with a shower .. then it becomes a shower. 
> If around the pipe on which the tap is present is fitted a fountain .. 
> then it becomes a fountain.
>
>> Nit picking: Oxygen is a gas .. under 'normal' conditions. 
> Better to use the term fluid rather than liquid.
>
>
>> I would expect the following to have taps are part of their 
>> construction - as a OSM default - shower, bottle filler, drinking 
>> fountain. If there is no tap .. then tap=no .. or better 
>> flow=continuous. Why is flow=continuous better .. it says what it is. 
> Why would tap=yes be a good default?
>
> I have run an overpass query to find all tagged types of drinking 
> fountains 
> ("fountain"~"^(bubbler|drinking|nasone|drinking_fountain|toret|roman_wolf|wallace)$").
>
> The total number of tagged items is 1572, 964 of which are in Italy 
> (732 of which in Rome!!). In Italy this kind of fountains generally 
> does  not have a tap.
>
> Thus, the majority of fountains currently tagged in osm do not have a 
> tap; at this point it would be more sensible to have tap=no as a default.
>

In Australia it would be unusual to find a drinking fountain without a 
tap to stop the flow when a person is not drinking. I think it could be 
illegal such is the scarcity of water.


Certainly when water restriction are declared such uncontrolled drinking 
fountains would be rendered useless, thus I don't think there are any 
here without taps.

With the most restrictive water restrictions decorative fountains are 
turned off, public water taps disabled but drinking fountains still usable.
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