[Wikimedia-l] TomTom does a Britannica

[Anthony]

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