Is giving a descriptive name really not best practice in some circumstances? For example if I invent a name for a fountain "St Restitut Church fountain", is this incorrect ?
Adding descriptive names would violate OSM's core principle of verifiability [1] [2] and would make it impossible to distinguish from real names.
[1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability [2]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name
Best regards
Markus
On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 at 20:09, European Water Project europeanwaterproject@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Markus,
I agree it is clearer and will make that amendment and make sure it is the same in the French version which we will publish in the next days. No one should feel the need to be inventive.
Is giving a descriptive name really not best practice in some circumstances? For example if I invent a name for a fountain "St Restitut Church fountain", is this incorrect ?
Best regards,
Stuart
On Sat, 21 Dec 2019, 13:18 Markus, selfishseahorse@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Stuart!
Thanks for adding amenity=fountain to the documentation. I would also change
name = "the name you choose"
to
name = "name of the fountain" (if any)
or similar, because "the name you choose" may lead people to add a description (e.g. "Drinking fountain" or "Old fountain on the main square in Watertown") instead of the fountain name, if it has one. (For descriptions, the key description is used. If the fountain has no name, noname=yes can be added.)
Best regards
Markus
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 18:07, European Water Project europeanwaterproject@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Markus and Simon,
We have had many non-technical people read the instructions and have reworked them significantly to make them more legible to individuals who have no knowledge of OSM or Wikimedia Commons. I am sure we will have to continue to improve them further.
If either of you have the energy to review them again, I would greatly appreciate it.
Best regards,
Stuart
On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 at 22:31, European Water Project europeanwaterproject@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Markus,
Based on your suggestion, we will suggest when adding a drinking fountains to for them to be tagged either 1) as amenity = drinking_water or 2 ) with two tags a) amenity = fountain and b) drinking_water = yes.
And for section 3) we will suggest that for editing a water fountain that does not seem to have drinking quality water that the fountain should be designated with two tags a) amenity = fountain and b) drinking_water = no.
Thank you for your comments,
Stuart
On Sun, 15 Dec 2019, 22:05 Markus, selfishseahorse@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Stuart!
On the Wikimedia page you suggest adding drinking_water=yes to a drinking fountain (amenity=drinking_water). However, this is redundant as amenity=drinking_water already implies drinking_water=yes. [1]
By the way, you may also be interested in mapping amenity=fountain, i.e. decorative fountains, [2] as they often provide drinkable water too. Note that for amenity=fountain it makes sense to add drinking_water=yes/no.
[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dfountain
Regards
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