Since GBPTM allows to contribute new toilet entries, I asked on Twitter how they could be added back to OpenStreetMap without creating duplicates.
The answer is that they will provide an API to extract contributions and they perform deduplication using 25m clusters: https://twitter.com/rupertredington/status/535412423805906945 On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, at 11:39 AM, Ben Pollinger wrote: > Hello all, > > The Great British Public Toilet Map [was launched yesterday] providing > details of over 8,000 public toilets in the UK including council > facilities, train stations, community toilet schemes as well as > shopping centres and libraries. > > An alarming finding from the research by Royal College of Art Helen > Hamlyn Centre for Design, is just how few public toilets are now > available." > > Article on launch (OSM not mentioned): > http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/19/uk-public-toilets-mapped-wheres-your-nearest > > Map (using OSM data and Mapnik layer): > http://greatbritishpublictoiletmap.rca.ac.uk/ > > Regards, > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb