[OSM-talk] OSM for government

[Stefan Keller]

Hi Joost,

Interesting proposal.
I'd like to point to Vorarlberg (Austria), who mandated a company in
Graz to maintain cycle routes of Vorarlberg in OSM.
I added this in the wiki page.

:Stefan


2017-02-06 13:45 GMT+01:00 Robert Banick <rbanick at gmail.com>:
> Really interesting conversation and tips here. My team at the GFDRR has been
> tiptoeing in this direction for a while. To date we’ve mostly been involved
> in one-off data creation projects that demonstrate OSM’s value the
> governments we work with and get them to produce non-sensitive data in the
> open they would otherwise make privately (then probably misplace within a
> few years, leaving only final report PDFs in their wake). Projects like this
> and this.
>
> We’re not blind to the fact that this is imperfect and less than
> sustainable. So we’re looking at the examples you all list for good (and
> bad) ways to institutionalize this work and make it standard practice
> instead of one-time.
>
> We’re also interested in funding the creation of better software tools to
> make it easier for governments to do these tasks, particularly for
> government IT staff that may not be on the cutting edge of technology
> practices even within their own country, let alone internationally. More GUI
> based ways to visualize changes and perform quality control, or see multiple
> departments’ inputs on a single set of nodes in OSM.
>
> Are there any specialized tools you all have seen used for these purposes?
> Can we capture some of the scripts / etc. published by model cities/govs on
> the wiki page? Thanks for setting that up joost!
>
> Robert
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 1:51 PM joost schouppe <joost.schouppe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> As suggested by Mikel, I created a wiki catalog page about the subject:
>>
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMapforGovernment
>>
>> It's just an outline, I'll try to add some stuff from this conversation
>> over the following days; but you're welcome to do that first yourself :)
>>
>> I'm not quite sure how HOT related mapping fits in that page. I would
>> guess there's a HOT catalog somewhere out there, where some cases will
>> probably involve quite some government support. I'd rather link to that than
>> duplicate the list.
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