It will be interesting to hear about Refill UK's policy on Open Data. Perhaps they believe that their business model is inoperable if the data is open?
I believe that they are a figurehead project from Ordnance Survey's Geovation scheme. I hope that they haven't tainted their data. On Fri, 13 Mar 2020, 10:55 European Water Project, < [email protected]> wrote: > I am due to have a call Tuesday morning (17/3) with Rebecca Burgess, CEO >> of Refill UK (https://refill.org.uk/ ) and the parent organisation City >> to Sea( https://www.citytosea.org.uk/ ) . This is one of many calls I >> have had with Refill. >> >> The Refill board's reluctance to share/license water refill data openly >> is very unfortunate. Refill requires all partners to exclusively sell >> Chilly water bottles and only use their application. I hope we can >> convince Refill to reconsider. >> > > >> Building a global open database of water refill points would be >> beneficial to all - resulting in a larger and better maintained network and >> less single-use plastic ! >> > >> >> *From:* Gareth L <[email protected]> >> *Date:* 12 March 2020 at 12:36:14 CET >> *To:* Jake Edmonds <[email protected]> >> *Cc:* "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> *Subject:* *Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project Suggestion - >> drink_water:refill* >> >> >> >> Hi Jake, >> >> Thanks for posting about this. I’m due to post on the Osm-uk loomio >> asking for suggestions on what the Q2 project should be. Are you aware of >> any other viable sources of data beyond an in person survey? >> I wonder why refill wouldn’t want to license their data. >> >> Gareth >> >> On 12 Mar 2020, at 11:27, Jake Edmonds via Talk-GB < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> I understand there is an existing suggestion on the UK Quarterly >> Project talk page about drinking water but I wanted to add my support now >> that the drinking_water:refill proposal was approved. The tag is used to >> indicate if the establishment participates in a water refill network. I >> understand Refill.org.uk are unwilling to license their data. >> >> The drinking_water:refill tag is currently in use by the European Water >> Project's website and priceless.zottelig.ch. In addition OsmAnd have >> just added support according to their GitHub, I hope they will push an >> update to their apps soon. >> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key%3Adrinking_water%3Arefill >> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:drinking_water:refill> >> >> >> https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd-resources/commit/15f5c919d3ac25cc048c4f3e0a569f7981999f65 >> >> Many thanks >> Jake >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> >> _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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