Re: [OSM-talk] What can we offer local government?

2017-03-15 Thread James
Baby steps First you get people using OSM as background maps(instead of google), then maybe people will start to see that you can do a lot more with OSM data than just a background map. On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 9:41 AM, joost schouppe wrote: > On the one hand, I

Re: [OSM-talk] What can we offer local government?

2017-03-15 Thread joost schouppe
On the one hand, I find the use of OSM as a background map a slightly boring use-case. I'd like to see gov use actual data. On the other hand, it can actually be controversial within organisations. Because people will complain to the local government if they notice mistakes in the background map.

Re: [OSM-talk] What can we offer local government?

2017-03-15 Thread john whelan
Nice one James. Thanks John On 15 March 2017 at 08:38, James wrote: > The city of Ottawa already uses OSM in their opendata portal: > http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/sledding-hills > http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/neighbourhood-names >

Re: [OSM-talk] What can we offer local government?

2017-03-15 Thread James
The city of Ottawa already uses OSM in their opendata portal: http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/sledding-hills http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/neighbourhood-names http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/airport-runways etc etc But I doubt they know/care as their portal was built by a consultant and not them. On

Re: [OSM-talk] What can we offer local government?

2017-03-15 Thread joost schouppe
Hi John, The page Clifford shared is of course an excellent resource (I started the article :) But your remarks are not very government-specific, so you probably won't find an answer there. > Both locations use more than one language. Both seemed unaware that the >> map can be in languages

Re: [OSM-talk] What can we offer local government?

2017-03-14 Thread Clifford Snow
This is a new wiki page, https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_for_Government, for governments that use OSM. Please feel free to update the page to include Ottawa Hydro. Best, Clifford On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 2:02 PM, john whelan wrote: > Do we have a wiki

[OSM-talk] What can we offer local government?

2017-03-14 Thread john whelan
Do we have a wiki entry on this subject? It has come up a couple of times. Locally this morning talking to the guy who supplies us with Ottawa bus stops under an approved open data licence. It only took five years from start to finish to get it approved on both sides. It has also come up in