[OSM-talk] Digital environmentalism

[Gerry McGovern]

Thanks, Ciaran, and to everyone else who has responded to my query.

I think the ability to reuse and build on the data is a powerful sustainability and environmental argument.

 

From: Ciaran <ciaran.staunton at gmail.com> 
Sent: Wednesday 26 February 2020 06:49
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Digital environmentalism

 

Hi Gerry and friends,

Fundamentally the argument for OpenStreetMap as a most sustainable solution rests in the licence to re-use the spatial data. For example with #MapLesotho the main pre-occupation of the analysis (after 5 years of mapping everything) was to demonstrate the unsustainable, anti-urban and land hungry settlement pattern of humans – always expanding out as sprawl instead of designing their towns and cities. 

 

The same principle applies to western countries of course, in that an open api allows environmental NGOs to their own research without costly licence arrangements, and have their own spatial and environmental critique of matters like urban sprawl. Therefore your argument would be that OSM is a leveler, especially where the map has been completed with landuses and buildings.

 

 

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