Hello Simon,

1. I added language telling people not to copy fountain information from Google to OpenStreetMap

2. I reordered the instructions as per your suggestion.

3. I changed the 25 references from Open Street Map to OpenStreetMap

4. Based on a suggestion we just received, we are adding a section with instructions on how to edit a fountain so that people can add a name to a fountain or remove the amenity drinking water for a fountain which is signaled as non potable. Here in France, the mayors are so scared of getting sued that most fountains with perfectly good drinking water - even in the mountains- are labelled as "non-potable".

Thanks for your input,

Stuart

On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 at 13:12, Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch> wrote:

Hi Stuart

From a content pov looks good with just a few issues:

- if you include a link to google maps to get your current coordinates, you should point out that google maps is is not a legit source for deriving information for OpenStreetMap (just getting your current position is fine), and further extracting information from google maps and storing it elsewhere is against the their ToU (that's up to google to police though).

- I might had included a link in the first set of instructions to the adding a link to an image part for people that have already added an image to wikimedia commons or found an existing one there.

- nitpick: it is always OpenStreetMap without spaces.

Simon

Am 14.12.2019 um 09:24 schrieb European Water Project:
Hello,

We have recently created a small Geneva based NGO called European Water Project. Our project is 100% collaborative and 100% open data with the goal of helping empower individuals to reduce single use waste in their lives. We have written a set of instructions for adding new water fountains to OSM and adding photos to existing water fountains in OSM :

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Project/European_Water_Project

I would greatly appreciate constructive comments from this group on how to improve these instructions which have been written for a diverse audience - especially before we start translating them in to other languages. You can either respond to this chain or email me directly at stuart@europeanwaterproject.org

Our NGO is developing a Progressive Web Application to allow individuals to find nearby locations where they can refill their sustainable water bottle for free anywhere in Europe.
The first phase is focused on water fountains but we hope to help collaboratively create a network of cafes and restaurants which are willing to allow individuals to fill up their water bottle for free and avoid single use waste.

The beta version of our PWA application 100% powered by OSM and wikidata is available at https://europeanwaterproject.org

Best regards,

Stuart Rapoport
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