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    <p>I understood John's question very differently.</p>
    <p>Essentially as "what are the benefits to our municipality of
      being present in detail on OSM" not using the data or even
      contributing to it, just as they are not likely to contemplate
      that for the goog or Here.</p>
    <p>My short take on it would be: "because people can find stuff
      then".</p>
    <p>The slightly longer version is that there are likely economic
      benefits of many different kinds (traffic control, real estate,
      marketing and so on) that are difficult to quantify but are likely
      there.</p>
    <p>Simon<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 03.01.2019 um 22:33 schrieb Martijn
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      John — a fairly new resource is the Welcome site, <a
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      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
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      <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>
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      <div>Martijn</div>
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          <div class="">On Jan 3, 2019, at 2:07 PM, John Whelan <<a
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                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
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                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="">
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                Is there a web page somewhere that covers this?<br
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                It is quite a serious question and I suspect will be
                used to justify some expenditure and effort to help
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                Thanks John<br class="">
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