In search of London’s drinking fountains (and cattle troughs)
by Jack Thurston
Help locate London’s fine heritage of Victorian drinking fountains, in celebration of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association.
Public drinking fountains are a simple, modest yet precious civic amenity under threat from neglect and the rise of environmentally catastrophic bottled water. Turn away from the bottle and join a treasure hunt and celebration of the public drinking fountains of London (not forgetting troughs for the cows).
Use the Google Map below to add your favourite fountains:
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>>>environmentally catastrophic bottled water
The real home for this kind of stuff is the open street map project. For example:
http://openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.499054&mlon=-0.199341&zoom=14
This is something which has really taken off. Your water fountains would get tagged under the following feature:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Potable_Water
yes, but there’s no satellite image on openstreetmap, so it’s much harder to pinpoint the cattle troughs precisely. though if I had a gps device I guess I could record them that way.
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