<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">John — a fairly new resource is the Welcome site, <a href="https://welcome.openstreetmap.org/why-openstreetmap/" class="">https://welcome.openstreetmap.org/why-openstreetmap/</a> specifically may be interesting to point them to. It’s fairly high level and brief in its explanations, but if gives organizations a place to start when they’re not familiar with OSM and consider using it or contributing to it.<br class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>A common issue I have seen with governments wanting to use OSM data is the license, so they should look into that if they intend to use OSM data as a replacement / back-fill for any data they may now maintain themselves. Often it’s a one-way street: Governments can contribute data to OSM but they can’t use OSM data to enrich their own. YMMV, this is my experience from talking to governments in the U.S.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Martijn</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 3, 2019, at 2:07 PM, John Whelan <<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" class="">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: Verdana;" class="">I got a phone call
from someone who works for a municipality who was passed my phone
number. Basically asking from a municipal government point of view was
there any advantage to the municipality in having their municipality
mapped in detail in OpenStreetMap. <br class=""><br class="">Off the top of my head
businesses etc can provide map of where they are located without payment
and list their web sites and phone numbers etc.<br class=""><br class="">Is there a web
page somewhere that covers this?<br class=""><br class="">It is quite a serious question
and I suspect will be used to justify some expenditure and effort to
help enrich the map.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks John<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="moz-signature">-- <br class="">
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