[Talk-us] Examples Gov using OSM

[Alex Barth]

Alyssa - this is cool, any way we could talk to them? Would love to learn
how this approach is working out for them.


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:40 PM, alyssa wright <alyssapwright at gmail.com>wrote:

> I like this example - Natural Resources Canada are OSM to identify areas
> in their own data in need of updates.  They contribute loads of data, and
> then watch where that data got changed and use that to identify where they
> need to re-survey. (As reported by a colleague.)
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:30 AM, alyssa wright <alyssapwright at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> mentioned this to alex earlier, but i believe trimet was also editing
>> bike path data though not sure what came of that. the state dept uses OSM
>> but i don't have a specific example in production by way of example.
>>
>> i think this is a good question. i'm continuing to research.
>>
>> best,
>> alyssa.
>>
>> ps. i've come out of lurking....
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 26, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Steven Johnson <sejohnson8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I think Alex' inquiry was meant the other way round. That is, governments
>> using OSM data for whatever purpose. The example I'm most familiar with is
>> TriMet in Portland, OR, which uses OSM as a basemap for their TripPlanner.
>> [1] Are there other examples?
>>
>> [1]  http://trimet.org/go/cgi-bin/plantrip.cgi
>>
>> -- SEJ
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>>
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>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Elliott Plack <elliott.plack at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I can think of many examples of governments importing data into OSM, but
>>> none
>>> where they are using it actively. Is that what you are looking for
>>> examples
>>> of?
>>>
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