[OSM-talk] Partnership between OSM and local government?

[Aun Yngve Johnsen]

Well, the city of Vitoria (state capital of Espirito Santo, Brazil)  
allowed us to import their local data, giving a detailed map of the  
city. Now it is up to the community to fill in "the blanks", that is  
all the data we support that wasn't present in the data we received,  
or adjust the data where construction work have been done after the  
official survey.

[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=-20.3058&lon=-40.3027&zoom=12

brgds
Aun Johnsen



On 20/09/2010, at 17:23, Valent Turkovic wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:50:09 -0300, Aun Yngve Johnsen wrote:
>
>> You mean, how would the city council benefit apart from the fact they
>> are participating in a free, powerful routable map with loads of
>> features? Free worldwide distribution, availability on several  
>> types of
>> equipment. Software to make everything from local restaurant  
>> guides, to
>> routable maps with custom warnings.
>>
>> Besides there are thousands and thousands of volunteers doing the  
>> work
>> for them, without getting paid, demanding no more than access to the
>> finished works.
>
> In short yes ;)
>
> Longer answer:
>
> I really need so spell it out to them what is the advantage for them
> locally. To be blunt they probably don't care what we did on Haiti or
> other parts of the world, but they would like to know how OSM could be
> used locally for our town. Project documentation is clear that they  
> will
> support only projects that benefit local population.
>
> Any support we get can't be used to travel somewhere and map there, we
> need to collect data locally or use local data in some new and
> interesting ways.
>
> That is why I would like to hear from cities that are between
> 100,000-500,000 population on what projects have they collaborated on
> with their city council.
>
> As this is local (not state or EU) government the big emphasis is on
> local benefit.
>
> City council doesn't care too much about maps of restaurants, and we
> aren't such big city that we need that such specific kind of map  
> because
> there are maybe 5-6 decent restaurants any everybody knows them.
>
> Cheers,
> Valent.
>
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