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<div>OpenStreetMap Poland managed to get railway crossing reference codes from<br></div><div>one of organizations managing railways in Poland.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It succeeded partially thanks to being Serious and Official, Legally<br></div><div>Existing Organisation.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It was then imported - it is signposted, it could be mapped manually but<br></div><div>import of open data (on a matching license) was thousands times easier.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Support for searching for this codes was used to software used by many<br></div><div>firefighters in Poland.<br></div><div><br></div><div>And all firefighting departments in one of regions of Poland recently got<br></div><div>official info that this location method is now supported in that software<br></div><div>(copy of that official document was send also to OpenStreetMap Polska).<br></div><div><br></div><div>BTW, the mentioned system for firefighters is running primarily on<br></div><div>OpenStreetMap data, attribution is shown in bottom right corner.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Screen from paper send to firefighting departments, includes<br></div><div>screenshot of the data in use (a bit mangled due to<br></div><div>screenshot -> printing -> scanning -> screenshot cycle):<a href="https://i.imgur.com/sB9sUyW.png"><br>https://i.imgur.com/sB9sUyW.png</a></div><div><br></div><div>import discussion:<br></div><div><a href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=69113">https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=69113</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>And import was possible and useful in the first place thanks<br></div><div>to all data already present - primarily manually mapped, so<br></div><div>I think it is a good usecase how imports may be helpful<br></div><div>in avoiding drudgery and adding useful data<br></div> </body>
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