Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

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

Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

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

Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

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/

Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

Hi Yosem, OSM is data, ArcGIS is software, so there is no straightforward answer to your question. You can load (and even edit[1], though I do not generally recommend that) OSM data into ArcGIS, and you can use OSM as a base map layer. They even provide a pretty nifty vector tile OSM map that

Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

Also to note that despite city believing their data is 100% correct, it never seems to be the case thus requiring data manipulation/corrections. In a way OSM is a repository with accurate/validated geo data On Thu., Jan. 3, 2019, 5:40 p.m. john whelan Then of course we have the mapping for the

Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

Then of course we have the mapping for the blind and disabled which are useful in supporting their citizens or visitors who are partially sighted or disabled. On the cycling front there are numerous maps, layers and routing software available as there are for footpaths to encourage walking so

Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

On 1/3/2019 5:13 PM, Simon Poole wrote: The slightly longer version is that there are likely economic benefits of many different kinds (traffic control, real estate, marketing and so on) that are difficult to quantify but are likely there. Re: real estate use case - I have seen local agents

Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

John, might be worth pointing them to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_for_Government, which collects some more advanced use cases by governments (often local). I don't think it's mentioned there, but this is an example that is about as awesome as it gets :

Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

I understood John's question very differently. Essentially as "what are the benefits to our municipality of being present in detail on OSM" not using the data or even contributing to it, just as they are not likely to contemplate that for the goog or Here. My short take on it would be: "because

Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

How well do ArcGIS and OSM talk to each other? I have a client who has opted for ArcGIS because his institution provides it for free. But I've always thought of OSM as the better option. Should my client use OSM instead, especially given that he wants to crowdsource data? On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at

Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

John — a fairly new resource is the Welcome site, 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

Re: [OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

community data hacking like the maps from bike ottawa(maps.bikeottawa.ca) On Thu., Jan. 3, 2019, 4:10 p.m. John Whelan 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

[OSM-talk] What use is OpenStreetMap?

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