On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Tom Morris <tom(a)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).