[Talk-us] Transportation for the Nation Strategic Plan discusses OSM

[Josh Doe]

Kate,
Thanks for letting me know, I guess I'm surprised there was no mention
anywhere that the president and treasurer of the US chapter were on
this group! I trawled the mailing lists, wiki, and more. After your email I
finally found your names on the TFTN site, of course affiliated with your
individual companies rather than OSM.

I'm sure there will be some issues, but it's good to get involved
early, thanks for being a part of it.

-Josh

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> Myself and Thea Clay were on the strategic working group.  There
> weren't a ton of meetings, but we did participate in a couple
> conference calls.
>
> There was some tenseness around using OpenStreetMap.  There are issues
> such as federal government data being public domain and also people
> not that used to the idea of crowd-sourcing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kate
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Josh Doe <josh at joshdoe.com> wrote:
>> The goal of Transportation for the Nation is:
>> "Commence the development of comprehensive, publicly available,
>> nationwide transportation data sets. Ultimately, Transportation for
>> the Nation (TFTN) will encompass data sets covering multiple modes of
>> transportation, however, the initial focus will be on producing a road
>> centerline data set that includes all types of roads, both public and
>> private. The initial TFTN data set will include consistent, current,
>> high quality road centerline data for the entire country."
>>
>> This week they released their strategic plan, which includes
>> discussion of OpenStreetMap. I would encourage you all to take a look.
>>
>> Announcement:
>> http://news.nsgic.org/2011/05/transportation-for-nation-strategic.html
>>
>> Direct link to PDF:
>> http://nsgicftp.gisinventory.net/download/TFTN_StrategicPlan_v8DraftFinal.pdf
>>
>> Additional information on TFTN is available on this website:
>> http://www.tftn.org/
>>
>> They even list OSM as a participant, though I can't seem to find any
>> mention of TFTN on the lists or wiki, other than the article I
>> created:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TFTN
>>
>> -Josh
>>
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