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:
Links:
August 31st, 2007 at 4:48 pm
>>>environmentally catastrophic bottled water
September 6th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
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
September 7th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
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.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
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