Proposal:Deprecate man made=drinking fountain/alternatives
Do nothing
Keep current situation with divergent and self-contradictory tagging.
Fix classification
some people claim that objects depicted here are not drinking fountains, some people claim that these are drinking fountains - so we have "unclear definition" problem (or maybe definition is clear and there are some loud voices?).
The problem is with deciding whether objects set up for drinking from them are water fountain or is "drinking fountain" term actually limited to fountain=bubbler and excludes fountain=drinking objects
There are three possibilities
- Stop using man_made=drinking_fountain (proposed in Proposed features/Deprecate man made=drinking fountain)
- Conclude that this objects clearly are not drinking fountains at all (conflicts with how fountain=drinking is defined and described)
- Conclude that this objects clearly are drinking fountains (this causes conflict with man_made=water_tap described in the next section)
Taps
note: if only devices emitting gentle upward water stream are drinking fountains then this section does not apply as tag conflict does not exist
This drinking fountains are qualifying also for man_made=water_tap resulting in tag conflict (proposed to be solved by not using man_made=drinking_fountain)
Alternative new tagging in such case is to start using tap=yes + man_made=drinking_fountain and deprecate uses of man_made=water_tap for such objects
tap=yes
This would be a new tag
(as of 2022-10-11 tap=yes is used rarely and mostly as primary tag on HOT mapping, see https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1mFu). Examples of typical use:
- https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3072054424
- https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1259969240
- https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/109334421
- https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3977955629
as of 2022-10-11 there is not even single object using this proposed tap=yes + man_made=drinking_fountain tagging ( https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1mFv to check current state)