On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Tom Morris <t...@tommorris.org> wrote: > The more you play with OpenStreetMap, the more magical ways you start > discovering that you can use the data. Two that I've recently found... > > 1. Water fountains. Here in London, we used to have lots of water > fountains. Then modern capitalism found a much better way of > delivering water to people: put it in plastic bottles, drive it half > way around the country (or world) and sell it to people and a massive > profit, who then drink it and throw the plastic bottle away. There > are a few water fountains in London though, and they are listed on > OpenStreetMap. Any movement to campaign for change requires actual > data to start with.
This only works if you verify that all the water fountains in London are in OSM (which is pretty much tantamount to mapping them yourself). _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l