[Talk-co] Openstreetmaps gets official support by the Israel government

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*Openstreetmaps gets official support by the Israel
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The Israeli Openstreetmap (OSM) community worked ½ year with the Israel
officials to get some kind of official license free data from the Government
that can be imported to OSM without restriction.
Today we achieved the first goal and got the first official recourse.

The Israel Ministry of Interior provided an up-to-date (August 2010)
rasterized image of the current administrative boundaries of the Israeli
country. This is the first official data without restrictions that is
provided to the OSM project from the State of Israel.

The high resolution image includes important data about the administrative
borders and the districts, so it should be easy to trace the borders within
the OSM tools. OSM Israel is currently evaluating a way to import / trace
those data into OSM.

Members of the OSM Israel community will also present Openstreetmap to the
government GIS forum in Israel expecting even more support by Israel’s
officials in the future.

About Openstreetmaps in Israel:
Starting 2008 OSM in Israel included only some streets around Tel Aviv and
some highways.
Starting 2009 you could already use Openstreetmap for orientation around the
country.
In 2010 you could finally use Openstreetmap for navigation as all important
connections between the cities where available.
Especially the Bing sat-images helped to push the amount of streets to a
higher level and provided even more mappers that helped.
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