[talk-au] Working with local government

[Joost Schouppe]

Hi,
Have you discovered
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_for_Government ?
It collects projects where governments seek closer integration with OSM.

One in particular comes to mind: "An Open Summer of Code (osoc) project to
building a tool to compare and maintain OSM cycle routes with the official
ones"

When it comes to the ever-present "but what if someone changes MY data!"
worry, I usually say:
- if data had a tendency to deteriorate once in OSM, how come our data is
getting ever better?
- it's totally possible to write software to monitor the evolution of
"your" data in OSM all the time
- you could validate "your" data in OSM at set time X, then keep a copy of
that around as your "authoritative copy". At time X+1 compare your copy to
the now evolved OSM data. Fix in OSM if needed, make a new extract.

Best,
Joost


On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 5:32 AM Greg Dutkowski <greg.dutkowski at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, I'll check it out.
> Greg Dutkowski
> +61 0362238495/0408238495
> 1 Cascade Road, SOUTH HOBART.
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 12:48, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Richard Fairhurst posted something very relavent to this topic at this
>> https://twitter.com/richardf/status/1285590975511957504 in particular
>> http://theodi.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-05-Providing-data-to-OpenStreetMap.pdf
>>
>> On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 14:52, Greg Dutkowski <greg.dutkowski at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Bicycle Network Tasmania are trying to improve the quality of cycling
>>> infrastructure information in OSM.
>>> Much has been done by volunteers in various jurisdictions, and we have
>>> done lots locally, but the tagging is quite complex for cycle paths and not
>>> always correct.
>>> Local councils are responsible for much of the infrastructure, but they
>>> usually have little interaction with OSM.
>>> It would be most efficient if the councils GIS data worked in tandem
>>> with OSM data so that they kept each other up to date, each storing the
>>> info that is most useful for them. For instance, for bike parking, there is
>>> little utility in OSM storing the asset numbers and other info that the
>>> councils use to maintain their assets (although the ref tag could be used
>>> as a foreign key to help keep the two in sych).
>>> The Hobart councils we work with are concerned with the quality of the
>>> data in OSM and the ability of anyone to change it.
>>> Does anyone know of any examples we could learn from of local government
>>> itself working to keep OSM data up to date?
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Greg Dutkowski
>>> +61 0362238495/0408238495
>>> 1 Cascade Road, SOUTH HOBART.
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