[Talk-GB] Using Open Street map for UK local government physical assets

[Mike Thacker]

Hello

I am working with tools used by a large number of UK councils, rather than
us maintain separate data on local government assets (libraries, public
toilets, contact centres, etc), we should like to hook in to Open Street Map to
use its data and help maintain it.

So I'd like to do two things:

   1. Overlay on the Open Street Maps we already use (see the rather
small example
   within this report <http://reports.esd.org.uk/Reports/14> we generate)
   assets of types selected by users.  We can either do this by switching on
   the relevant OSM layers or by downloading the data and overlaying it on a
   map.  Note that maps are usually for a single local or fire authority.
   2. Provide an interface whereby local authority officers can update
   existing assets and add new ones to directly to Open Street Map via a
   simple dialogue that we provide.  We can introduce some validation on who
   does this.

I'd like to explore the feasibility of doing 1 and 2 above and whether we
are safe doing 2 without any suggestion that we might impair the quality of
OSM data.

I'd really appreciate any feedback by email or ideas as to whom I should
contact and how.

Thanks in advance
Mike
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