[Tagging] Apparently bubblers emitting jet of water on buton press are water taps

Davidoskky davidoskky at yahoo.it
Mon Oct 10 16:07:07 UTC 2022


> It is true that OpenStreetMap allows for any tag you like, but this 
> isn’t meant to encourage you to devalue established tags by using them 
> differently from how they are typically used. What would be the 
> benefit you expect from such retagging? 

This is not something I am suggesting; this is the current state of things.

fountain=drinking is currently a subtag of amenity=fountain and it is 
documented in the wiki. fountain=* is unfortunately also a subtag of 
amenity=drinking_water, I just noticed this and I think that this makes 
it even more confusing.

Anyway, I have proposed another solution: the introduction of a new key 
to cover all these features; a proposal for it was made but it was 
withdrawn due to fierce criticism, among which was yours since you 
disliked the fact that it deprecated some tags you're using.


I do see the problems in both approaches; but also having fountain=* as 
subtag of amenity=drinking_water does not look like a good solution to 
me. Moreover, what is the point of having values of fountain=* that do 
not apply to the amenity=fountain main key?

For example, this approach does not allow tagging fountains which are 
not decorative and that do not provide drinking water.

You can tag them as man_made=water_tap if they have a tap, if a tap is 
not present these cannot be tagged according to this scheme, because:

- No tap, thus no man_made=water_tap

- Not a decorative fountain, thus no amenity=fountain

- No drinking water, thus no amenity=drinking_water




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