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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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John — a fairly new resource is the Welcome site, <a
href="https://welcome.openstreetmap.org/why-openstreetmap/"
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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
contributing to it.<br class="">
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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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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
enrich the map.<br class="">
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