[OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

A detailed map is an essential tool for firefighters, ambulance, and 
police. And not only of the town itself but also of the countryside 
especially along railways and automobile roads.

The city of Stockholm built an interactive public transportation map on 
the basis of OSM: https://sl.se/en/ . People can see still at home when 
their bus is arriving at the stop.

The city of Odessa created the similar public transportation map but on 
the basis of a commercial map: http://transport.odessa.ua/ . It was 
extremely useful web-application, one could see how the trams' 
geo-markers were moving on the map. The web-application became very 
popular, and the commercial map underneath stopped working normally for 
some, probably also commercial, reason.

I mean a  municipal project which is based on an open data map running 
on the municipal server could be more resilient and affordable, 
especially if it becomes popular.

A big separate topic is e-commerce delivery services. A rookie delivery 
driver may search for an address in a city in some cases for hours. This 
excessive driving could be reduced significantly if a driver could see a 
delivery address on the map. It would mean less pollution, accidents, 
pavement wear.

Best regards,
Oleksiy

On 03.01.19 22:07, John Whelan wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Is there a web page somewhere that covers this?
>
> It is quite a serious question and I suspect will be used to justify 
> some expenditure and effort to help enrich the map.
>
> Thanks John
>
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