[OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

[Martijn van Exel]

John — a fairly new resource is the Welcome site, https://welcome.openstreetmap.org/why-openstreetmap/ <https://welcome.openstreetmap.org/why-openstreetmap/> specifically may be interesting to point them to. It’s fairly high level and brief in its explanations, but if gives organizations a place to start when they’re not familiar with OSM and consider using it or contributing to it.

A common issue I have seen with governments wanting to use OSM data is the license, so they should look into that if they intend to use OSM data as a replacement / back-fill for any data they may now maintain themselves. Often it’s a one-way street: Governments can contribute data to OSM but they can’t use OSM data to enrich their own. YMMV, this is my experience from talking to governments in the U.S.

Martijn

> On Jan 3, 2019, at 2:07 PM, John Whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I got a phone call from someone who works for a municipality who was passed my phone number.  Basically asking from a municipal government point of view was there any advantage to the municipality in having their municipality mapped in detail in OpenStreetMap. 
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> Off the top of my head businesses etc can provide map of where they are located without payment and list their web sites and phone numbers etc.
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> Is there a web page somewhere that covers this?
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> It is quite a serious question and I suspect will be used to justify some expenditure and effort to  help enrich the map.
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> Thanks John
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