On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 at 12:48, ael via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 10:46:39AM +0000, martianfreeloader wrote: > > As a native British English speaker I had never heard of a "bubbler". > As others have said, I would have called that a drinking_fountian. > I really don't understand why some people object to that term, but then > I brought up the issue with bubbler not being a British term, but I'm not really bothered by the specific word "bubbler" which is reasonably descriptive. Concentrating on the word bubbler is a distraction from what I think is the main issue. The issue is the misuse of key:fountain. The tag amenity=fountain was created to map the entity/object known in English as fountains, and is documented in the OSM wiki with several pictures of fountains. eg https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Fountain_at_Milan_citadel.JPG In English a small structure that spurts out drinking water is commonly referred to as a "drinking fountain". . "Drinking Fountain" contains the word fountain but it is not a fountain. In the same way "car park" contains the word park but is not a "park". OSM has a reasonable tag of amenity=drinking_water to map drinking water sources. At some point a contributor decided to create a key to primarily document types of amenity_water and "specific types of drinking water fountains". They made, in my opinion, a huge mistake by naming it key:fountain. The tag guidance is then added to the fountain wiki page. The result is the existence of tags such as fountain=bubbler, and fountain=bottle_refill. When it should be, as a suggestion, drinking_water:type=bubbler, or drinking_water:type=bottle_refill. Jass
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