[OSM-newbies] Any case of OSM adoptions in national mapping agencies?

[Richard Weait]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Shin, Sanghee <endofcap at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If this topic is not proper to this mailing list, please forgive me.
>
> I'm just curious about whether any countries' NMA(National Mapping Agency) or NGI(National Geographic Institute) had ever given away data to OSM or used OSM data officially.

Dear Sanghee,

Yes.

Natural Resources Canada has granted permission for use of their data
in OSM.  NRCan also publishes some datasets in the .osm format to ease
inclusion of that data in OSM.

There are others as well.