> > 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 <o...@live.co.uk> > *Date:* 12 March 2020 at 12:36:14 CET > *To:* Jake Edmonds <jake_edmo...@me.com> > *Cc:* "talk-gb@openstreetmap.org" <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> > *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 < > talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> 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 > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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