While out today and in desperate need of a bottle refill (the decision had already been made to stop at the hyper in the next town) I came across a really useful tap, by the side of the road, completely free access, over a drain grate so there was no surrounding bog and giving just enough on the automatic plunger tap to fill up a 800ml bottle. What's not to like?
This may well be a camping-car point, it was next to a parking place (more than a layby because there was a screen of shrubs between it and the road). I will have to check out a few more camping-car points, this wasn't signaled as such, to be certain, but if true then one of the most useful water source maps for tourists in France could well be the map of camping-car points (I can't believe it doesn't exist, just a question of finding it).
QG how do I go about adding such points to OSM, being a complete ignoramous in such matters? I am assuming that Googlemaps can give me a GPS reference for the point. Can I just send it to you/post it here and let you do my dirty work or do I have to muddy my brain with this "informatique" stuff? Or should this be a thread fork?
To complete the tale, with road temperatures close to 40° and having nearly finished my second bottle in 20kms I called out the recovery wife. I couldn't face the heat and crossing Limoges (which would have taken a certain while at 10km/h). In the 10 minute ride home 1l of fizzy mineral water went down. After a certain point in heat my body refuses to assimilate "ordinary" water (which then slops about in my tummy, most unpleasant!). The fizzy water came with the recovery team, needless to say. I took my cue from an ex-clubmate (a very experienced randonneur) who dehydrated and finished in hospital on a 1000km BRM the other week.