[OSM-talk] OSM for government

[john whelan]

A couple of the city of Ottawa web sites use the osm map.  Ottawa Hydro
which is owned by the City for example.  I think the UK has imported all
the bus stops and there are tools to import the GTFS format transit data
but that depends on the license of course.

Cheerio John

On 3 February 2017 at 10:33, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:

> TRIMet in Portland, Oregon, US is the regional transit operator. They use
> and contribute to OSM. The US National Park Service has been working on a
> version of iD that can feeds users changesets into both OSM and NPS. Last I
> heard it still is waiting to be rolled out. (Now that NPS is in trouble for
> their tweets, not sure if we'll even have national parks.)
>
> If there isn't a catalog there should be.
>
> Clifford
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 5:44 AM, joost schouppe <joost.schouppe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> With the Belgian community, we're making some careful progress into
>> getting government to really integrate OSM/VGI into their data management
>> efforts. So not talking about background maps here, real data contribution
>> or community engagement.
>>
>> There are some very specific issues and opportunities there. I believe
>> the Canadian Census is going that way. Are there any other projects in this
>> direction? Is there anything like a project catalogue around?
>>
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