[OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

[john whelan]

I've collected these ideas and put them together in the wiki.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020/municipalities

I may have left one or two out but I think practically everything is
covered in the links.

Thanks all for the input.

Cheerio John

On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 05:29, François Lacombe <fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> Big use cases for utilities, network operators and urban planning
>
> English: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/InfosReseaux/diary/47030
> French:
> https://www.openstreetmap.fr/cartographier-mondialement-linfrastructure-avec-openstreetmap/
>
> Furthermore, OSM is the only one to build and share a worldwide tagging
> model. Users can take the data but they can take the tagging model also and
> use it to refine third party data.
>
> All the best
>
> François
>
> Le ven. 4 janv. 2019 à 08:40, Oleksiy Muzalyev <
> oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch> a écrit :
>
>> 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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